Negrophile
Try as you might, Events are hard to come by.

[...] These are the reasons that you are there, and you know it. When a star is involved, the transformative emotional experience that the best shows provide is always a secondary matter. Because of that, I didn’t expect to be riveted by the play, to find my heart breaking right along with Lena’s, to feel Ruth’s exhaustion, and Beneatha’s anger. I even found myself leaning forward, elbows on knees, desperate for what was next. [...]

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