:53:00
And if bringing this to light
means we can't hang out anymore,
:53:04
then that hurts me.
:53:07
But, God, I just-- I couldn't
allow another day to go by...
:53:09
without just getting it out there,
regardless of the outcome,
:53:13
which, by the look on your face,
is to be the inevitable....
:53:19
shoot down.
:53:22
And, you know,
I'll accept that.
:53:27
But I know-- I know that some part
of you is hesitating for a moment.
:53:31
And if there's a moment of hesitation,
then that means you feel something too.
:53:35
And all I ask, please,
is that you just--
:53:37
you just not dismiss that and try
to dwell in it for just ten seconds.
:53:44
Ah.
:53:47
Alyssa.
:53:49
There isn't another soul
on this fucking planet...
:53:55
who has ever made me half the person
I am when I'm with you.
:53:59
And I would risk this friendship for the
chance to take it to the next plateau,
:54:03
because it is there
between you and me.
:54:05
You can't deny that.
:54:18
Even if, you know--
:54:24
Even if we never talk again
after tonight,
:54:28
please know that
I am forever changed...
:54:33
because of who you are
and what you've meant to me,
:54:37
which, while I do
appreciate it,
:54:42
I'd never need a painting of birds
bought at a diner to remind me of.