"Oh, wow," she says, deadpan. This is in reaction to the rough cut of my music video that Sam just threw on. Sam and Julia die laughing, because she sounds so unimpressed.

I asked her about it a few days later and she crossed her eyes. "No, I was genuinely impressed. I really was, that's just what I say."

Tonight we waited for her train to be announced at Penn Station. When her track showed up on the board and she went to hug me goodbye, I took her face in my mitten covered hand and kissed her. "Oh, wow," she said, and we walked away in opposite directions.