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Kara Young as Racine IS GOD IS (2026) dir. Aleshea Harris

There’s an old poem by Neruda that I’ve always been captivated by, and one of the lines in it has stuck with me ever since the first time I read it. It says ”love is so short, forgetting is so long.”  It’s a line I’ve related to in my saddest moments, when I needed to know someone else had felt that exact same way. And when we’re trying to move on, the moments we always go back to aren’t the mundane ones. They are the moments you saw sparks that weren’t really there, felt stars aligning without having any proof, saw your future before it happened, and then saw it slip away without any warning. These are moments of newfound hope, extreme joy, intense passion, wishful thinking, and in some cases, the unthinkable letdown. And in my mind, every one of these memories looks the same to me. I see all of these moments in bright, burning, red.

PATRICK BALL as DR. FRANK LANGDON The Pitt, 2.09 "3:00 P.M."

11.26.13 Winter Whites Gala

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GLEE REWATCH S02E08 — Furt

But love has ways of bringing things back to life…

CONNOR STORRIE photographed by Jazeel Gayle in 2023

Mother was mothering so hard that day.

Olivia Rodrigo Tried Writing Love Songs. Then Life Got Messy. The New York Times (2026)

Every Taylor candids ⇢ On Bondi Beach in Sidney, 2012

THE PRINCESS DIARIES 2001 - Dir. Garry Marshall