#Thank you Phyl! These were so cool!

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oc interview ➔ Samuel Gabehart

year five

tagged by @phyl-the-gryffinclaw and @slytherin-puffskein

name ➔ “My name is Samuel Gabehart,” he says with a warm smile.

are you single ➔ Sam tilts his head and looks to the ceiling, then down to the floor. “For now…”

are you happy ➔ Sam blinks, his smile never faltering. “Of course. I’m always happy.”

are you angry ➔ “What could I possibly be angry for?”

are your parents still married ➔ His expression softens. “Yep. Have been for over two decades.”

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NINE FACTS

birthplace ➔ “I-…” Sam pauses and furrows his eyebrows. “Huh… I don’t quite remember… I’ll have to ask my mother in my next letter.”

hair color ➔ “It’s red! Well… it’s sorta… white now but! I was born with red hair!”

eye color ➔ “Uhh… I suppose it would be considered amber?”

birthday ➔ “September 6th! 1972 of course.”

mood ➔ “Happy. As always.”

gender ➔ “I’m a boy! At least… I think… I mean… I like makeup and everything but I still… I feel like a boy. I think?”

summer or winter ➔ Sam hums quietly and purses his lips. “Summer, I think. I like both but summer feels warm and fuzzy.”

morning or afternoon ➔ “Afternoon. I hate waking up.” He giggles lightly. “That doesn’t stop Laulau from wanting me to be his workout buddy. Or, rather, his weight set.”

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EIGHT THINGS ABOUT YOUR LOVE LIFE

are you in love ➔ Sam lets the question sink in for a moment before chuckling. “I… I suppose. Or perhaps it's just a crush?” He shrugs. “I tend to get a crush for two or three days then move on to the next one… Until I see or talk to them again, then I’m head over heels all over again.”

do you believe in love at first sight ➔ It takes him a bit longer to answer this one. He purses his lips and takes a breath. “I think… I think some people do. And that’s what matters. I mean, I get ‘crush at first sight’ but like I said, it doesn’t usually last very long.”

who ended your last relationship ➔ Sam’s lips thin. “It was mutual. We’re still very close friends, don’t get me wrong but… He deserved better.”

have you ever broken someone’s heart ➔ His eyebrows pull together. “Goodness no. I would feel awful… Well… I guess if you count Andre… but we’re friends now. We’re okay.”

are you afraid of commitments ➔ He smiles but the expression doesn’t quite give off a name-able emotion. “What a silly thing to be afraid of. I suppose everyone has their weakness…”

have you hugged someone within the last week? ➔ “Oh of course! I hug all my friends! Well… the ones that like hugs. Lau loves hugs I hug him the most!”

have you ever had a secret admirer ➔ Sam smiles through his confusion, looking around the room as he thinks about the question. “tell me, do you know what the word secret means? Because if I had a secret admirer, would it not defeat the purpose of it being a secret if I knew about it?”

have you ever broken your own heart? ➔ “Now why would I do that? Silly…”

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SIX CHOICES

love or lust ➔ Sam tilts his head and blinks owlishly as if he doesn’t understand the question. “Love.”

lemonade or iced tea ➔ “Lemonade!”

cats or dogs ➔ “Well I really like both. We used to have a dog; he was a big fluffy cutie-pie! And I have two cats that I love so much! I wish I could take them all to Hogwarts…”

a few best friends or many regular friends ➔ “Best friends. Definitely. Who wouldn’t want a best friend to goof around with or sleepover with?”

wild night out or romantic night in ➔ Sam smiles, albeit shyly. “Romantic night in.” He sighs, eyes far away. “What I wouldn’t give to be able to put a movie on and curl up under some blankets with Di-” His eyes open wide and his face turns cherry red. “Uhm! Aha! With uh!... Um… ha…”

day or night ➔ “I always have been a night owl,” he says with a wink.

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FIVE HAVE YOU EVERS

been caught sneaking out ➔ Sam looks as if his mother had just been insulted. “Never!”

fallen down/up the stairs ➔ Sam sheepishly shrugs. “A few times. With tons of things in my hands.”

wanted something/someone so badly it hurt? ➔ Sam’s expression seems bittersweet. “I suppose everyone has at some point. Whether it’s out of love or greed… We all have something we want but can’t have.”

wanted to disappear ➔ “My… No, I don’t think I have… What would possess you to ask such a question?”

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FOUR PREFERENCES

smile or eyes ➔ “Smiles. They can light up a room.”

shorter or taller ➔ Sam’s eyes are filled with stars as he dreamily sighs, “Taller.”

intelligence or attraction ➔ “I think it’s kind of unfair to judge a person on things they’re born with or without. Why not heart?”

hook-up or relationship ➔ “Relationship.”

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FAMILY

do you and your family get along ➔ “Of course! Why wouldn’t we?”

would you say you have a “messed up life” ➔ Sam laughs in disbelief. “Me? No, of course not! Well… I mean, I guess with J being gone it isn’t quite perfect but I’m going to find him. And once I find him, it’ll all go back to how it was and it’ll be perfect again.” Sam’s eyebrows hint at a different story.

have you ever ran away from home ➔ “Absolutely not. Where would I even think of going? No one is home usually anyway, what would I be running from? My cats?” He laughs.

have you ever gotten kicked out ➔ “Goodness no! I- what would I even be kicked out for?” Sam’s smile seems bright as ever but there’s a tinge of nervousness to it.

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FRIENDS

do you secretly hate one of your friends ➔ He opens his mouth to say something but closes it, then repeats a few times before, “Why in the world would you be friends with someone you hate?”

do you consider all of your friends good friends ➔ “Maybe not all of them but that’s just because I haven’t gotten them to open up yet. Oh, like how I got Mira to talk about astronomy with me all night when I used to stay in the girls' dorms first year. Dia was so mad at us.” He giggles. “And Ada. I don’t think she liked me much until we started talking about clothes and stuff. She has a really good eye for fashion. Some people I just haven’t found their thing yet, and that’s okay.”

who is your best friend ➔ “I have lots of them! Lau, Mira, Rowan, Audrey, Evie, Dahlia, Jason-…” The list is about thirty minutes long.

who knows everything about you ➔ “I tell Lau pretty much everything.” Almost everything at least.

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#Samuel Gabehart #Thank you Phyl! These were so cool! #And thank you Silver for the motivation to do it adskjfhskdfjh #my writing

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It’s Gonna Be May

May. May. May. She is a wild and crazy gal. And she is zipping by.

But there are a couple of constants regardless of crazy schedules, travel, work insanity and general bullshit.

Mother’s Day. My mom’s birthday. Juan’s birthday. Upfronts. The Indy 500.

Happy Birthday and Mother’s Day to Phyl. This year both were the same day.

Juan attended the Upfronts this year. He loved it. Truly one of the coolest things. We are beginning to watch pilots. Does it say we are getting older when we are excited about shows on CBS?? For the past few years, we have coupled Upfronts with an NYC theater weekend to commemorate Juan’s birthday. These things always coincide. So we try to take advantage of that.

We took a vacation day on the Friday before Upfronts and then went bananas. We shopped until we dropped. We did very bad very good things at a place that sounds like Susan Lucci. Without the Susan. And replace the L for G. Shoes are our babies.

Then we began our theatrical endeavors. On Friday night we saw Tootsie. There’s a new musical version featuring Santino Fontana as Tootsie. We looooove us some Santino. The show is really quite delightful. The time has been updated to a more modern day and some aspects of the plot have been modernized but the story is generally the gist of the movie of same name starring Mr. Dustin Hoffman. We laughed a lot. Highly recommend. It’s a fun romp and something the whole family can enjoy.

On Saturday we enjoyed a classic. Roundabout Theater Company is currently staging a revival of Kiss Me Kate at Studio 54. It features Kelli O’Hara. We loooooove us some Kelli O’Hara. Revivals are interesting. Some are staged very classicall. As originally concepted. While others are reimagined and reengineered. This particular version is a big ass classic. Choreography, orchestra, set, cast. It’s a big honkin’ Broadway show. It’s fun. There’s great music. I’d like to sup, y’all. Potentially with my baby tonight, y’all. It’s too darn hot, y’all. Plus Kelli O’Hara. She’s butter. She can come to the Cabaret whenever she’d like. Please and thank you.

Then on Sunday we saw something special. Something truly original. It’s called Hadestown. So basically the mythological tale of going to hell. Orpheus, Persephone, Hades, Eurydice and Hermes. But set in a New Orleans jazz club with a full jazz score and orchestra. My god. Juan and I were both so moved. It’s really very powerful. The ensemble is absolutely incredible and the Muses are basically narrators in three-part harmony. My god. It’s just cool. Incredibly original. The set is nuts. The lighting is amazing. The singing is so very good. My god. Andre De Shields (Google it....) plays Hermes. He is a gahtdamn living legend. He is nearly gahtdamn 80 years old and he still got it all. The singing, the dancing. He owns the stage. But the rest of the cast is right on time. Eva Noblezada is incredible. Reeve Carney is great and is making up for that Spider-Man: Turn Off the Dark fucking bullshit nonsense. Amber Gray is the real deal. We loved her in Natasha, Pierre and the Great Comet. And the man who played Hades is a man named Patrick Page. He has the deepest bass voice I’ve ever heard. (That’s what she said.) I cannot stop gushing about this show. I don’t know if it will tour. It’s possibly a commercial stretch but I would just love for people to experience this wonderful show.

And now we are at the end of May. Memorial Day weekend. The weekend when the masses descend upon Indianapolis. Allegedly the best strippers from Vegas and NYC are flown in to entertain the high rollers. That may or may not be true but what is true is we are getting the fuck out of Indy. We’ve done this race thing a couple of times and it’s just too much. I know many of you love May at the track. Too much gen pop. Too much MAGA. I don’t need it. I prefer May in Cali so we are off to visit Mr. Martin Robert Kator. We are going to whoop it up in Monterey, Pebble Beach and Carmel-By-The-Sea. Which sounds fancy AF. It’s going to be an awesome weekend of Pacific Ocean highjinks. Beer, wine, good food, good fun and an aquarium. Bring it.

But for real...how is it the end of May? It is unclear where 2019 has gone. We will just keep on living our best lives. That’s really all we can do.

#blessed