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So did you ever have one of those teachers that just connected with you in such a fantastic way that you wanted to reach out and find them later in life to say thank you. I know for a fact,

favorite teacher of mine, that you saw something in me that other teachers didn't see. We had a

bond. It was awesome. And you want to reach out to them years later to say thank you. And you just

kind of assume, even though it's been years since you talked to this teacher that you had this bond with

they would remember you would be totally festive with it and they would roll with it and they make you feel good about where you are in life

this happened to gondy yeah tell them what happened well oh no we talk about here all the time that if somebody has

opened your eyes like that reach out to them give people their flowers while they are still alive. It's important, especially for teachers. You know, they maybe don't hear it often. Yeah. So I was thinking about one of mine, specifically my choir teacher for middle school, who really opened my eyes to a lot of things. A musical theater was one of them. He had us sing a song from Rent, which at that time was apparently very controversial for a lot of the parents. They didn't want us singing something from Rent because, oh my God, this gay musical. But he was like, no, this is a beautiful song. We're going to do it. It was awesome. And I got the bug at that moment. When we did that song, I was like, I love musical theater. I made my parents take me to see Rent. From that point on, I just really enjoyed it and appreciated it. And when Danielle, you and I got to be on Broadway, even though it was like a very short moment, it was one of the best days of my life. Wow. And on that day, I thought about Mr. O'Neill. And I was like, I wonder if this would like mean anything to him or what's going on.

But I waited for a while.

I finally found him. I sent him a very long message about how he changed my life and he opened my eyes to musical theater and all of these great things have happened in my life and thank you. It was about this long. I'm showing you guys in the room. Wow. A very long, long message. Did you really

went back and recalled

a lot of stuff that he did for you?

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