brown community to come out and support — we'd never seen that many fill the house of the metropolitan opera housegraphs of the line that was wrapped around and outside of the fountain that were just black people. it was like, are they going to church? like, what's happening? because that's what, you know, you don't typically see that many black people going into lincoln center. and so for what it represents, there's so many happy memories. but then i also had six stress fractures in my tibia and pulled out of the season the next day. the next day? and ended up having a plate screwed into my tibia. so you basically did that once. were you in agony the whole...? yes. yeah. i mean, once you go on stage, so much is, you know, the adrenaline and everything, so much is forgotten. it's a painkiller. yes, it's a great painkiller. but then as soon as, you know, all of that subsides and i remember taking the subway home that night and i...and it hurt just to stand. and you knew you couldn't... there's no way — i knew that that was it. mm—hm. how do you deal with disappointments like that? oh, you... for me