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Gurr speaks with a mix of humor, directness and curiousity, eager to share stories but also not someone who overly romanticizes them.

He romanticized measles as a "great week" for kids, because they get to skip school and eat chicken soup.

“I love when you meet someone and you become so obsessed, it’s almost a divine thing. I love when boys are very obsessed with me. I love to feel romanticized.”

But on the other, he romanticizes the legendary songwriting duo’s friendship out of proportion with the immutable facts of history.

Think of, say, Animal Kingdom and its emphasis on conservation, Epcot and its original, albeit disappearing thesis, of a global and science-led future, or even Disneyland and its romanticized vision of American myths.