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Liz

I could feel everything he was feeling. I could feel his loneliness. For the first time I was really seeing Max Evans, I saw me as he saw me, and the amazing thing was, in his eyes, I was beautiful.

— Roswell • 1999

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Our interpretation.

The speaker describes feeling Max Evans's emotions, including his loneliness, and seeing him more fully for the first time. That experience also reveals how he sees the speaker: as beautiful. The moment joins understanding another person with an unexpected, affirming view of oneself.

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