Claire Chabaud-Tropéano was strolling by means of the streets of Brooklyn, New York, questioning if that night time was going to alter her life eternally.
That night, Parisian Claire felt like she’d stepped into the New York City-based motion pictures she’d grown up with: tree-lined streets, rows of townhouses, fall leaves underneath her toes, jack-o’-lanterns grinning at her from stoops.
“I remember walking in the streets of New York…and being like, ‘This party could be everything. Maybe it can be a pivot.’ Because I felt so bad in my life,” Claire tells NCS Travel.
“I remember being like, ‘Maybe it’s a moment, you’re in a movie, and something’s going to happen, and everything makes sense, and that’s why it was bad before.’ I’ve got a very, very vivid memory of that.”
It was Halloween 2019. Claire, then in her mid-twenties, had traveled to the US from her residence in France “on a whim.” She needed to be an entrepreneur. Her dream was to dwell in New York City. But she didn’t have a visa, didn’t have an condo, and didn’t have the means to make any of {that a} actuality. Unfortunately, the journey to New York had made her ambitions appear additional away, slightly than nearer.
“I was seeing my American dream really fading away,” she says.
Plus, that previous adage that “wherever you go, there you are” had by no means felt extra actual to Claire. She needed to admit to herself that working away to the US was additionally an try and run away from unhappiness again residence — and it wasn’t actually working.
She had simply gone by means of a breakup, she explains. “I was really at this moment of collapsing. I actually cried a lot.”
She debated chopping her losses and returning to Paris, however a New York-based good friend persuaded Claire to remain in the metropolis a bit of longer. Claire had met this good friend, who was an entrepreneur, on trip in Costa Rica. The good friend understood the frustrations and ups and downs of constructing a enterprise — and figured that Claire wanted to let off some steam, to have some enjoyable.
“She was like, ‘Look, it’s my birthday this weekend. Just stay for my birthday. And then it’s Halloween next week. So just stay for those two parties, and after, you can go. In the meantime, I’ll host you.’”
The good friend’s party was enjoyable. Claire began to really feel a bit of higher. And then got here the Halloween occasion, hosted by a pair who had been buddies with Claire’s good friend and labored in the tech world. They had been very profitable and lived in an exquisite Brooklyn brownstone. Claire’s good friend promised the occasion could be one to recollect. Claire allowed herself to get excited.
“Halloween is my favorite party, event, celebration since I was a kid,” says Claire.
She was wanting ahead to spending the vacation in the US. She knew Americans went all out for Halloween.
“So when my friend told me, ‘Okay, stay for this party, I started to get excited about my outfit.’”
Claire had a imaginative and prescient: She was going to decorate as a galaxy, embodying a system of stars.
“I had bought a black cat suit, and I sewed on it fairy lights that were blue, pink and white. So in the dark, you would just see my fairy lights moving.”
When Claire arrived at the tackle — her fairy lights twinkling — and entered the stunning 1800s townhouse, the inside took her breath away.
“All the rooms had a kind of incredible setup and decorations… everything was a kind of attraction. There was a room with different light systems, a room where there was a magic carpet…”
Claire was there early, however the constructing was already full of different twentysomethings in costumes, drinks in hand.
Claire had entered the occasion with a bit of a objective: “I need to let go of my ex. Let’s see what’s going on.”
She seen one guy straight away. His costume was undeterminable, to Claire not less than — a go well with and eyepatch. But regardless of the unimpressive costume, she couldn’t take her eyes off him.
“I remember seeing him and being like, ‘Whoa. If everyone is as hot tonight, that’s going to be great.’”
More individuals arrived. The occasion was in full swing. As Claire walked from room to room, chatting with completely different individuals, she stored recognizing the guy with an eyepatch in the periphery.
“I kept seeing him and being like, ‘Wow, he’s really cute, and I’m really into him,’” she recollects.
But they by no means gave the impression to be shut sufficient to speak. And an increasing number of revellers fell by means of the door, and the occasion obtained busier, unfold throughout a number of flooring of the townhouse. Claire misplaced observe of the eyepatch guy. And then she ended up on the roof of the constructing, trapped in a dialog in which she had no curiosity.
“I was like, ‘I don’t like this conversation. I want to get out of it. And I was really cornered,’” says Claire. “I bear in mind at my faculty, they informed me, ‘You can always leave a room when you’re caught.’ And so I bear in mind being like, ‘I’m simply going to go away.’
And so she left, whilst the individual she was speaking with tried to maintain her locked in dialog.
Feeling proud of herself for this decisiveness, Claire made her means downstairs and entered a giant room the place music was blaring, lights had been flashing and everybody was dancing.
“It was very busy, and I was like, ‘Okay, who do I talk to now, what do I do?’”
Then Claire noticed him: the guy with the eyepatch. He was taking a look at her.
“And he felt like the most beautiful man on earth.”
Claire felt her coronary heart in her chest. She strode in the direction of him, smiling. He smiled again.
The man with the eyepatch was David Redd.
In the fall of 2019 David was in his late twenties. An LA-based musician, he’d simply completed recording his first full-length album. He felt on the precipice of one thing particular, however unsure how issues had been going to pan out.
“It was the first body of work as an artist that I felt really, really proud of. I thought it was gonna launch my career,” David tells NCS Travel in the present day. “I also thought I was gonna fall in love. I had been sort of falling for a friend, and was chasing after something that I knew was wrong.”
That October, David was visiting buddies in New York City, the place he’d grown up. He was excited to meet up with his previous crew. But he needed to psyche himself up a bit earlier than the occasion.
“My friends were hosting a cool Halloween party. I was like, ‘All right, I need an escape. I need something to reset,’” he recollects. “I looked in the mirror, and I was like, ‘Alright, I got this party tonight. Let me just bury everything. Let go, give it up to chance. Stop holding on so tightly to what I expected was going to happen, and just allow whatever happens to arrive… And then she arrived.”
David noticed Claire early on, her fairy lights twinkling completely different colours. Her face illuminated in the neon gentle.
“I remember your eyes,” he tells her in the present day. “Your very blue eyes.”
David stored recognizing Claire on the different facet of rooms. Walking previous her on staircases. But they stored simply lacking one another.
“And then, when we finally actually started talking, I had that feeling: ‘Oh, it’s you,’” he recollects.
When David gazed at Claire, it was like one thing clicked into place. And then she commented on his costume.
“I was like, ‘Hi. Um, are you at the wrong party because your outfit is not as cool as the other people?’” recollects Claire, laughing.
“No no,” says David in the present day, additionally laughing. “You said, ‘Your outfit is very lame.’ You were rude, very French.’”
Claire doesn’t deny this. But she recollects the two of them laughing collectively, proper after she insulted the costume.
“He has a very broad smile and laugh. And my thought was, ‘I could watch this laugh all my life.’ I remember very distinctively thinking that and being so crazy to think that — it’s not like ‘I could spend my life with him.’ It’s like… ‘I could watch him laugh all my life.’”
David interrupted Claire’s reverie to ask about her costume.
“And I look at him and say, ‘I’m a galaxy,’” Claire recollects.
“It was a good costume,” says David. “Whereas mine was bought for about $12 on Amazon.com.” David was dressed as villain Number 2 from the Austin Powers movie franchise — a collection of motion pictures Clare had by no means seen.
“I was missing the reference,” shrugs Claire.
“I did get compliments earlier in the evening from people that understood the reference,” provides David, laughing.
After their costume comparability, David and Claire continued speaking. And they didn’t cease.
“It was this weird chemical thing, like we kept circling each other, and then kind of stuck,” says David. “I imagine kind of molecules or atoms, floating around in space, but there’s a chemical charge there that’s attracting them to each other, and then all of a sudden, as soon as they bump into each other, it just kind of…I mean, we spent the whole rest of the night together.”
“I think it was love at first sight,” says Claire. “When he was in a room, every time, my body stopped.”
There’s a photograph taken that night time, a number of hours after Claire and David first met. It was “four in the morning, something like that,” says David. In the image, the two “look like we’ve known each forever.”
“We’re just kind of lying down on the floor. She’s lying on top of me. We’re talking, and it’s just … there’s an intimacy and ease in the pose that’s remarkable. We are complete strangers. We are total strangers,” says David.
At one level a mutual good friend walked previous, and barely tipsily informed the two that they “should really meet.”
Claire nearly laughed.
“I remember being like, ‘Oh, we’re already in love,’ It was very strong for me,” she says. “Though what was interesting is, actually, at this party, we didn’t kiss. Because I told David, ‘I don’t want to kiss you on the first night, if it’s important.’ And so it was interesting, because we just talked, and we actually fell asleep on a couch.”
The subsequent morning, David walked Claire again to the condo the place she was staying.
“He asked for my number, and I tell him, ‘What if we let destiny do it?’ And he looked at me, said, ‘No, give me your number,’” recollects Claire.
David wasn’t going to let a flight of romantic fancy derail this opportunity at one thing actual.
“‘I had been waiting for this person to arrive. This was the thing that I was looking for and waiting on … and it wasn’t what I expected. It wasn’t, like, everything that I’d had in my mind. But it was very clearly right.”
So Claire gave David her quantity. He promised to textual content. They stated their goodbyes.
A day handed. Then two. Then three. Claire heard nothing from David.
“Three days, no news, and I’m heartbroken,” says Claire.
Claire’s normal modus operandi was to wax lyrical to her buddies about her potential love pursuits. But when buddies pressed her for info on the guy from the occasion, she waved them off.
“I was like, ‘No, I don’t want to jinx it…I want to preserve this.’”
But she was rattled by the lack of communication.
“No news from him. And it was like…’I was sure it was real. What’s up with that?’”
Then, on day 4, Claire obtained an Instagram notification: a observe request and message from David.
“I don’t know if the wrong number was intentional, but just in case it wasn’t… hi, it’s me,” learn the notice.
Somehow, Claire had given David the unsuitable quantity. She was relieved he’d perserved and located her on social media as an alternative. Hearing from him was “awesome.”
They began texting. But David was again in LA. Claire was again in Paris. It wasn’t clear the place their messages had been going.
“A lot of people, when they have these (long-distance) relationships, they’re in this long, drawn-out text thread that’s going on over the course of, eternity, essentially. And I’m a kind of transactional sort of dude when it comes to text messages,” says David.
Their messages had been a bit of stop-start. But they did keep in contact.
“We texted a little bit back and forth, we called from time to time. We did a couple of FaceTimes.”
Claire was additionally a bit of hesitant about their communication.
“The fact is, I broke up with my ex because he moved to New York, because I didn’t want to do Paris-New York,” she says. “And now I’m back in Paris with a guy from LA… I remember at first kind of trying to move away from him and not being able to.”
Claire went to events and out to bars in Paris and talked to different individuals, hoping to copy the chemistry she felt with David nearer to residence, to no avail.
“Every time I would try to talk to someone, I was like, ‘Oh, but there is not this feeling. There is not this intensity,’” she recollects.
Claire shared her tiny Parisian condo with her two childhood greatest buddies. One night, she walked into their shared kitchen and made an announcement.
“I was like, ‘Okay, guys. I think I’m going to invite this American boy to our home.’”
Claire’s buddies inspired the concept. They even stated they’d filter out for the weekend so Claire and David may have the condo to themselves.
That night, whereas chatting to David, Claire talked about — as casually as she may muster — that Paris was “really beautiful at this time of year.”
“You should come,” she stated.
David was torn. He needed to see Claire. But he additionally felt prefer it was a “crazy” factor to do. He appeared for flights, half-hoping they’d be too costly to justify.
“But it was back in the days of Norwegian Air. God bless them. There was a $300 flight from Los Angeles to Paris round trip. I was like, ‘Wait a second, I could do that. That’s not too crazy,’” says David.
His finger hovered over the buy button. David hesitated.
“I called my mom, who is a very risk-averse person. I was like, ‘Is this insane? Should I just fly to Paris to meet a girl I met for 16 hours?’”
David anticipated his mom to speak him out of it. But she didn’t.
“She was like, ‘Well, you know, worst case, you’ll be in Paris, worst case, you’ll wind up there. That’s never a bad idea.’”
David couldn’t fault this logic. He booked the flight.
The day earlier than David arrived in Paris, Claire couldn’t sleep. She cleaned her condo high to backside.
“I remember my roommate being very happy with that. She was like ‘That’s very convenient,’” says Claire, laughing.
But when Claire and David reunited, all these nerves melted away. The chemistry from the Halloween occasion was simply as palpable.
They went out for drinks collectively, catching up over cocktails. Then they ended up assembly up with all of Claire’s buddies. David was in his component.
“I’m an American. I’m an English major. I’m a writer. There’s a lot of Paris that I love and fantasize about that’s been romanticized,” says David. “And so we end up at a drag show in Montmartre with a bunch of friends at a tiny little bar. And I was like, ‘Oh, so it’s real. This is exactly what I would have hoped and it was amazing, and her friends were super-cool, and the night was fun and interesting.’”
David and Claire hadn’t outlined the phrases of his go to. They hadn’t talked about what their connection may entail. Claire hadn’t informed all of her buddies about him — one of them even tried to make a transfer on David, which Claire swiftly blocked. But she didn’t voice her personal emotions to David aloud that first day. He didn’t say his ideas aloud both. But they didn’t go away one another’s facet.
“I’m sure we were both feeling it, but neither of us had expressed anything,” David recollects.
Claire attributes this stalemate to their respective attachment kinds. She’s “anxious.” He’s “avoidant.”
But David would additionally get swept up in the romance of the second. He informed Claire he cherished her that weekend, whilst he swerved her makes an attempt at planning for the future.
On the final day, this culminated in a confrontation.
“The last night … ‘What is this?’ was a big question. I don’t think we had any answers,” says David.
David figured it will all work out if it was presupposed to. He left considering: “We’re going to figure it out.”
“He had a sense of this. I did not,” says Claire. “I was freaking out.”
That was November. In December, the two met in San Francisco. But Claire, uncertain the place she stood with David, pitched this as a spontaneous journey to go to California-based buddies for New Year’s Eve. She thought it went with out saying that David would decide her up from the airport. David informed himself Claire simply occurred to be in city.
“And so, I did not pick her up from the airport,” says David. “I’m sure there was stuff in my own psyche that was afraid and unsure and probably trying to sabotage things a little bit, and was, yeah, kind of avoidant of, ‘Okay, what’s happening? What’s the level of intention here? What is the situation? Am I picking her up for another romantic adventure, or am I meeting her at a party that she said she was going to?’ Turns out it was both.”
“So I arrive at the airport and he’s not here,” recollects Claire. “I call a friend, she picks me up, and I felt crazy. I’m like… ‘You cross the world for someone who’s not there.’”
For Claire, the second highlighted the tensions of assembly somebody on trip. Sure, it’s romantic in the second. But when do you commit? When do you categorical your emotions? How do you make it work?
When David recommended they shouldn’t put a label on their connection, Claire was left reeling.
“I was like, ‘If I’m going to take a 12-hour flight, you’re going to put a label on this.”
For David, the danger of shedding Claire eternally was a wake-up name. He was trustworthy with her.
“I remember saying, ‘I really want this. But I just don’t want to be tethered to my phone. I don’t want to be in a FaceTime relationship. I don’t know what to do. I’m very scared of this.’”
Claire understood his fears. They weren’t about her. They had been about the realities of committing to somebody who lived on one other continent, over 5,000 miles away. It was a concern she shared.
But she famous that even when he gave the impression to be wavering, David didn’t disappear on her.
“He always stayed in a fight, he was always there,” she says.
David felt the significance of this too.
“Even if we were struggling to figure out the structure of the relationship or how we were going to make this work, or if I was a little bit avoidant in terms of how I was going to state my commitment… I think we were both really forward with our feelings and our emotions about it, and committed in terms of how strong it felt, and committed to whatever it is we’re going to figure this out together,” he says.
With that sentiment in thoughts, Claire and David determined to leap in and decide to a relationship. It was January 2020.
For the subsequent couple of months, issues felt surprisingly straightforward.
“In February, we met in London, and then in March, we met up back again in New York, and she met my whole family,” says David. “I released the first song from my debut album. I played a sold-out show in New York City. It was this perfect weekend again, everything was fitting really well.”
Post-gig, Claire and David spent a comfy Sunday collectively, planning out the relaxation of the 12 months — alternating meet-ups in Paris and LA. It felt doable.
“And that’s when we got an email from the French government saying that she was being repatriated to France. There was a national emergency. You needed to get on the next plane now… And then we were quarantined apart for the next four months.”
During these early months of the pandemic, David shortly realized his fears of a relationship confined solely to FaceTime had come true.
But slightly than stressing him out, lengthy calls with Claire stored him sane in a annoying, unsure time.
“There was a pretty easy cadence where there was time to just sit and talk,” he says. “That’s where I think a lot of our relationship kind of fully bloomed. We knew it was there, but we got to see each other’s vulnerabilities more. We got to see each other in not the best places.”
They performed board video games on the web. They went to Zoom dance events. David wrote love poetry and browse it to Claire over video name, “a little drunk.”
Meanwhile, each Claire and David tracked their respective nation’s border guidelines, desperately hoping they may have the ability to reunite. By the summer time of 2020, a plan had shaped: David would fly to London, quarantine there, after which catch a practice to France to be with Claire, who, by then, was dwelling with her grandparents in the south of the nation.
It was extra of a Covid-era border loophole than it was a legally sanctioned transfer. When David arrived at Heathrow, UK border officers gave him “a hard time.”
“I eventually was like, ‘Look, I’m meeting my girlfriend. She’s from France. I have a negative Covid test. I am not trying to stay in the country too long. I just need to be here for two weeks, and then I’m leaving,’” he says. “And they let me in.”
Two weeks later, David moved into Claire’s grandparents residence in the south of France. Both Claire and David had been overwhelmed with a sense of reduction.
“Getting back to be in the same place as each other, it just felt like ‘All right, now our life begins,’” recollects David.
But the scenario wasn’t one thing they’d ever anticipated — a twentysomething couple dwelling with an eighty-something couple in a pandemic.
“And my grandparents don’t believe in a foreign language,” says Claire.
The older couple didn’t converse English and refused to entertain the concept that David didn’t perceive their French. Still, regardless of the language barrier, Claire’s grandparents warmed to their American customer.
“My grandpa was very solitary, and yet my grandpa loved David from day one,” says Claire. “My grandpa just sat David with a glass of wine and started to tell him war stories.”
“I understood just enough to know when to laugh,” says David.
Over the subsequent few months, David picked up extra French. David and Claire spent cozy afternoons collectively, and lengthy evenings cooking and sharing bottles of wine with Claire’s grandparents. It was a surreal, however particular time.
“We went from ‘we meet in the best places in the world’ to ‘we quarantine for three months with my grandparents in France,’” says Claire. “But it was so special. My grandpa passed away earlier this year, and what was amazing is he was so close to David, because we had these few months together that were so meaningful.’”
But after three months in France, David needed to return to the US. EU nationals nonetheless couldn’t go to the US, and the couple’s subsequent steps had been unclear.
Eventually — after arguing with border brokers and looking for solutions on-line — David and Claire went to Mexico collectively, planning to spend two weeks in Mexico City earlier than touring to the US, one other Covid-era border loophole.
After abandoning a windowless Airbnb for a room in a shared condo, the two spent a tremendous two weeks mountain climbing and exploring the metropolis and befriending the proprietor and different individuals in their trip rental — who they continue to be buddies with to this present day.
“They were locals,” says Claire. “Our friend, Dani had just come back from traveling. She had been repatriated back to Mexico. We stayed there for a couple of weeks. We went camping with her and became good friends and just fell in love with Mexico City…Another one of those crazy stories where, how did it work out like this?”
From there, the two went to the US, the place Claire stayed for 3 months. In 2021, the couple had been separated for a number of months once more.
Eventually, the pandemic began to wane and journey restrictions began to loosen, and reuniting turned simpler.
For Claire and David, these experiences of separation and hard-fought reunion crystallized their certainty in one another and in their relationship.
“We were out of our comfort zones the whole time,” says David. “They say traveling is a great way to get to know if you’re compatible with your partner. Well, we did a lot of that very early on, in difficult circumstances, difficult and stressful.”
This interval additionally crystallized their plans for the future. Claire was “typically French” in not considering marriage was important when selecting a life companion. And David had at all times disliked the “crazy expectations” of the American “wedding industry.”
“But, with all of the travel restrictions, with all of the craziness going on, I think it made it clear that legal protection here might be valuable,” says David. “Which is not the most romantic thing in the world, but I think we were able to then find the way to make it romantic, and find a way to make it feel like it was us.”
And so in the summer time of 2022, David and Claire obtained married in the south of France in the village of Tourrettes-sur-Loup the place Claire grew up. Afterwards, the wedding ceremony occasion headed to close by Juan-les-Pins, by the coast.
“It was very cute. I love our wedding. It was very simple. It was on a Tuesday … it was very hot. We had the marriage at a city hall, and after dinner on a beach, on the sand,” says Claire.
In the planning interval, Claire realized the concept of feeling her “feet in the sand” on her wedding ceremony day was the solely side of the day she felt strongly about.
But in the second, each Claire and David shocked one another with how emotional they felt about getting married and about its significance.
They additionally cherished having the alternative to deliver their households collectively for the first time. There had been loads of comical French/American misunderstandings. David’s grandmother made a memorable speech.
“She had a bad habit of doing, like, long rhyming couplet kind of things,” says David. “I was like, ‘Please don’t do one of those.’ And it was great. We got a two line speech and a Mic drop.”
After their wedding ceremony, David and Claire settled in LA. This was a reasonably straightforward determination — a achievement of Claire’s longheld dream of dwelling in the US.
“I’ve been obsessed with the US since I’m a kid. I wanted to work here,” she explains.
By then, it was 2023. The couple frequently returned to France to see Claire’s grandparents. They put down roots collectively in Los Angeles. They lastly shook off their fears of being separated by borders, relieved that it doesn’t matter what occurred, they’d be collectively.
“Our wedding secured us the certainty that we could not be separated,” says Claire.
All the power they’d spent on touring, on border-navigating, may now be targeted on their relationship, on their careers, on their life in Los Angeles, the place they nonetheless dwell in the present day.
While the couple are comfortable in LA, they’re undecided in the event that they’ll be there eternally. They’re contemplating a possible transfer to London to be nearer to France and spend extra time with Claire’s household. It helps that David’s now fluent in French.
“People always say, ‘That’s so cute. You learned French for your wife.’ I’m like, ‘No, I learned French for me. I learned French to feel like I could truly immerse myself in the culture in France. I learned French so that I could communicate with her family and get to know her family,” he says.
David additionally provides, laughing, that he realized French so the couple’s future children received’t be about to speak about him “behind my back.”
“I was excited about having a secret language with my kids,” jokes Claire.
For now, the couple are concentrating on life in the US, the place Claire is working exhausting on her start-up — growing “smart bras” that observe hormones and well being. Meanwhile, David is focused on his music.
Earlier in October, he launched a music he describes as being “about falling in love while the world fell apart, finding happiness in the craziness.” The music, “Slowly Straight to You” is about Claire, of course.
Both Claire and David relish the help and stability they provide one another in non-stable careers. With David by her facet, Claire says life feels “like a canvas.” The alternatives really feel infinite.
David echoes this:
“The fact that we have this relationship even on those days where we’re failing everything, where dreams aren’t coming true — which happens in this life — we know that we have this thing that we built and that feels really sturdy.”
This 12 months marks six years since Claire wandered the streets of Brooklyn, questioning if a Halloween occasion would change her life.
The finish of October stays a particular time for Claire and David. They at all times take a second to replicate on their life collectively when Halloween rolls round. The two additionally often hunt out a slice of fall round this time of 12 months, as they’re each from locations the place “autumn is a thing, versus in Los Angeles, where it’s not,” says David.
“Somewhere that feels like there’s trees and there’s leaves changing, and there’s a sense of escape and just kind of grounding ourselves in nature a little bit. We do that pretty much every year, around our anniversary — and we try to find a good Halloween party.”
Claire’s Halloween costume prowess has additionally rubbed off on David.
“We both dressed up a couple years ago as different versions of David Bowie. So that was a good one,” recollects David.
Today, when Claire displays on that New York Halloween occasion and assembly David, she says her overwhelming feeling is gratitude.
“So grateful,” she emphasizes. “He was everything I hoped I could meet someday, but I thought I couldn’t deserve it. When I met David, I was like, ‘He’s so kind. I am so attracted to him. He’s so interesting. He understands me.’”
As for David, he says reflecting on assembly Claire and constructing a life collectively additionally retains him “hopeful” about life extra broadly.
“It’s a good reminder to enjoy the ride a little bit,” says David. “The ups and downs. There’s going to be hassle, there’s going to be good moments, there’s going to be all the pieces in between. But have some religion, belief that you simply’re getting the place you’re going, even when it’s agonizing alongside the means. The agonizing might be you simply being impatient, in all probability you simply stressing the experience a bit of bit an excessive amount of.
“If you’re clear in what you want and stick to what you believe in, I do have faith that you’ll get where you’re going. Meeting Claire really showed me that, and it’s restored that faith.”
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