[She's quiet for a moment or two, to digest that -- ]

I didn't know why I fell in love with you, at first, besides the obvious -- shallow reasons -- you can sing, you have the same goals as I do, all of that --

[Rachel pauses.]

But... when you left, I realized that -- you're one of the only people who taught me how to stand up for myself without trying to change who I was or how I dress or what I sing or justify my priorities or why I had to write Andrew Lloyd Webber an eight page letter demanding psychological treatment for the sequel to The Phantom of the Opera --