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The Longing of a Kid in a Backwater
Yeli grew up in chicago and so that was a profound payoff, right? Ya? An, over a hundred years of longing, yeah. I remember waiting in line in manhattan at the zig field theatre. And what was interesting to me was how deeply, eh, how emotional people were, and then how much they connected it with sort of their own relationships. It's such a powerful scene in that it says, this world is not like yours. But the longing you see in front of the creen you can completely identify with. So here is a kid in the middle of nowhere, in a backwater, who is longing for something more. That connects with us in