urgh. I was obsessed with Wicked... and had just seen Beauty and the Beast... and my lucky number was 4. I don't know if I shall ever forgive the banality of my 13 year-old self...
"He found something that he wanted, had always wanted and always would want— not to be admired, as he had feared; not to be loved, as he had made himself believe; but to be necessary to people, to be indispensable."
-F. Scott Fitzgerald's This Side of Paradise