Two months later, though, he took a job at a theater ninety minutes from the family and friends he had supposedly moved to be near. I was already hooked. It was his first season there, and we ended up working on the same play. Bewildered, I turned to the stage, where the actors were frozen in place, one holding a cup of coffee halfway to his mouth, another sitting at a school desk, hand raised, as if about to answer a question. Instead we continued to workshop scenes.
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