Her response, as with most everything else she does, blew him away.
“And—again, leave it to Emily, who is better at everything than me—she goes, ‘It can’t,'” he relayed. “She just so perfectly encapsulated it. ‘It can’t be like this again, and it shouldn’t. So take this and put it on a mantel, this really special treasure that we experienced together. And now go out and do something else.'”
Should that next venture be less successful, she’ll be the one propping him up, but more likely than not, she’ll be rooting him on from behind. No matter how it turns out, he’ll have his No. 1 fan at his side.
And we’ll all be watching, with more than a hint of jealousy, from afar.
(Originally published July 10, 2010 at 12 a.m. PT)
