I haven’t been able to write a lot because we are just so darn busy. In three days, it will be opening night for Anastasia, in which you play Anastasia. People probably do not know this but when you saw it on the Broadway tour you said, I am going to play that part someday. For your 13th birthday we let you do a master class with Christy Altomare, the original Broadway Anastasia, and you were the first kid in the class to perform for her. You told me afterwards that maybe you weren’t going to be able to play Anastasia because you weren’t the best singer.
Another thing people may not know is that when you were 10 you had a life saving surgery. At the time we were asked if we wanted to donate the tissue from your surgery to science, and we said yes. Today, you received a letter from Boston Children’s Hospital asking you for permission to keep your sample, now that you were 18. You were funny, you asked me what they would do with it and if there was any way you could be the next Henrietta Lacks.
I love that you know who Henrietta Lacks is, I love that you get to play a role you dreamed about when you were a kid, I love that you got all A’s on your report card and still thought there was room for improvement, I love that you say, I love you to your parents and your sister and your friends, honestly, I just love you!
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