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A scene from the Hawking backstory, in fact the last scene of the Justin and Clara relationship. I always knew they ended badly, and it was mostly Justin’s fault. But in actually writing up the breakup scene, I wanted to make it not completely cut and dry. They were both in their very early twenties, less mature and more self-centered, making them somewhat worse people back then than they would eventually become— Justin in particular. So here I wanted to get a little at what issues between them made it so their breaking up was inevitable. Yes, they were incompatible in many ways, but each one treated the relationship a little bit more like a competition to be won against a worthy opponent rather than a true connection or partnership. I wanted to try and write out the ways that they failed each other, that they would call one another out on in the heat of an angry moment.
Full disclosure, I lost the first draft of this in a software blip— the second time in as many months that’s happened, grrr —but because I knew what I was shooting for pretty clearly, I was able to recreate it without too much trouble.
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( Day #3 - Rake and Coquette )
Full disclosure, I lost the first draft of this in a software blip— the second time in as many months that’s happened, grrr —but because I knew what I was shooting for pretty clearly, I was able to recreate it without too much trouble.
Photo by John Benfield
( Day #3 - Rake and Coquette )
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