I proposed to my wife in the parking lot of the theater where we had our first date. We had seen maybe forty movies there over six years: bad horror, great dramas, the midnight showing where the power went out and everyone stayed anyway. The building holds our twenties the way a song holds a summer. Streaming gives you content. Theaters give you a place where your life happens to occur while art is playing. Every couple has a restaurant like that, a park like that. Ours was a cinema with sticky floors and a broken seat in row G. Tell me that's replaceable and I will tell you that you have never loved a place.
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