Went:
Two days after my attempt, someone close to me, someone whose opinion I valued, said, "I have to love you less now. To protect myself."
And I thought, "I get it. I understand. it's only fair. it's what I deserve."
Their words haunted me. Silenced me. Right though graduation, and beyond.
"I have to love you less now."

Wentworth Miller delivers a speech at the conference...

Almost 20 years later, that was the first line of dialogue in the first time scene in the first feature film I ever wrote.