00:00but she was the first person who ever looked at me and said I see you and no one in
00:09my life ever
00:10did I had a friend she's gone now a friend of my mother's who was a pain in the bum
00:17to be perfectly
00:18honest a really complicated woman smart brilliant irascible but kind of a pain in the bum but she
00:28was the first person who ever looked at me and said I see you I see that you're smart I
00:40see that
00:40you're really clever I see that you're funny I see that you're complex and no one in my life ever
00:49did
00:50and I'm not this not like me playing a violin I'm just telling you school didn't see it not a
00:55teacher
00:55saw it she believed in you she's my mother's friend literally kind of held my face and said
01:02I see you and that changed my life wow wow and even though I and I stayed friends with her
01:09until she
01:09died and she was a pain in the ass a really complicated person who made me angry very very
01:16often but I've never forgotten what that felt like because it did change my life it made me think
01:24I have a mind of my own even though nobody else sees it
