Chapter 8
“It’s hard to have a relationship in the spotlight. There’s already so much self-consciousness, nervousness, and doubt when you’re trying to date somebody, the last thing you need is an audience picking apart your every move. A lot of times that audience—fans, journalists, whatever—they don’t do it to be mean. They’re just curious. But it’s like you’re taking this crowd of avid onlookers with you on every date, all of them calling out advice and criticism of everything you do—and everything the other person does! It’s hard for anyone to fall in love that way.”
—excerpt from 2015 interview with Rafael Reyes on Dallas radio station Star 102.1
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They used to call me Peg-Leg and it caused me lots of grief
They thought I was a pirate, they thought I was a thief
One day a l
