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PLEASE SHARE THIS!!! It’s too amazing not to share. 

A friend of mine created this video to get his girlfriend and love of his life back. What happens in the video actually happened. She went into it thinking it was just a project she was going to help with, not knowing she was the center of it, and the meaning behind it all. It all happened in one take, and all of the reactions are real.

She was asked to hold these cards and flip them up on queue. A friend of theirs read the cards when they were flipped up.

What follows is incredible. 

What my buddy, Alex Mercier, had to say about this: “It’s easy to get caught up and confused in life. Happiness is a simple thing, we just complicate it. I name of this song, ‘goodbye’, is ironic because it’s NOT a goodbye to a lost love. It’s a goodbye to the distractions and shiny things that ultimately prevent us from being happy. If you have people that care about you and you are given the opportunity to share yourself with them - Do it." 

Here is his description of the video, and their relationship:

"My sister introduced us 2 years ago, but we lived in different cities (She lived in Seattle, I lived in LA)

When I found out she was moving to LA I told her there was an amazing room available… It was my room. I was gonna move out.  When she took it I conveniently hung around for a few days.  A week later were together and consolidated our things.  Everything was perfect for 6 months then tension started building.  We were living on top of each other and both of our work lives were creating a lot of stress.  I moved out in hopes that things would go back to normal.  It was a short lived success.  We weren’t clicking.  So, we broke up officially, but were still very much in each others lives.  Her heart was broken.  I was very focused on work.  She ended up meeting someone else.  This was a shock and I was heartbroken.  You don’t know what you have until it’s gone.  Like a kick to the chest.  I made it clear that I wanted this to work between us and now was the time.  However, she was already involved with something else.  So, the Love triangle was created.  

Then came the video. She’s an actress and a model so I thought she would be willing to work on a project with me for my music.  She has always been supportive of this.  So she came down to the studio with virtually no idea what was planned.  We handed her some cards and gave her instructions to lift one at a time in front of the camera.  A friend read the cards back to us.  Her reactions were real, as it was our story.  

STEPHEN COLBERT, The Colbert Report (via inothernews)