00:00I usually get so upset when Megha edits my poems.
00:03She's a terrible editor.
00:05Well, you know, I feel like if you could do this all on your own,
00:08I wouldn't be here.
00:13Andrea really thinks of poetry as what
00:16can I create to give to people.
00:18I think that's why it's been more long-lasting.
00:23I grew up in a tiny town in the woods of northern Maine.
00:29I didn't know that somebody could grow up
00:31and make their living from art.
00:35I wasn't by any means a natural.
00:38Was not one of those wow hounds born jaw-dropped.
00:40I was tough in the husk untouched by rain.
00:47At first, I thought it was a stomach bug.
00:50But when it started feeling like a stomach anaconda,
00:52my doctor convinced me to get a CAT scan.
00:54This is the beginning of a nightmare, I thought.
01:00But stay with me, y'all.
01:03Because my story is one about happiness.
01:07Being easier to find.
01:09Once we realize we do not have forever to find it.
01:12I wrote a new kind of bucket list.
01:19To sit with the mourning dove who cries for her lost love.
01:24To perform one last show.
01:27Why don't we just root for me being alive,
01:30and if I'm not, I will not feel bad about not being there.
01:34We're almost there, Ange!
01:38We're almost there, you got it!
01:40To touch Meg's face.
01:43And a hundred times again.
01:48To remember...
01:51everything.
01:52All of these lines across my...
01:55Andrea's having a serious medical emergency.
01:58I'm gonna bring it up to the nurse when she comes back,
02:01because I think this might be a little bit more important.
02:03I was made for you.
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