“This is gold. Some of the best sh*t you’ve ever written.” At least that was something, and I know from the way you’re all looking at me that you know exactly who every one of them is about. I didn’t say shit because they didn’t say shit, and that was that.

I knew before I brought it to them that it was some of my best work. Because even if she wasn’t there with me in the flesh, I had felt her spirit all over me in that studio. Just the memories of her had been enough to ...