Amy

And the name Kato came in and the name was familiar to me because I know Kato best.

I mean, I do because we see it every day, but I just feel so typical at this point and that's unfortunate.

Yeah.

So when I was in high school, we did a musical every two years.

In the late 90s and 98s, I was a senior in high school, and it was the year for our musical to happen.

Our theater teacher was out from a medical injury, I guess she sustained.

So we had brought in some ringers to direct the musical.

So there were three people, Cato and his partner, that did the blocking and the lines aspect of it.

And then another gentleman that was brought in to direct the musical parts of it with the pit and the singers and all of that.

Cato and his partner were new to me, but not new to many of the other students who had worked with them in other capacities, playhouses and other productions.

The vibe from the students was that they were very excited and really liked Cato and his partner.

There was a lot of respect there and they were young and had a lot of great energy to them.

It seemed like they were on the road to big things.

So there was a lot of excitement to have these people directing us.

So that was the first time I met Cato and his partner.

Yes, that is absolutely true.

At that point, I think that it was a two-year-old daughter, like a toddler age, that they shared together.

And so they share a child together.

It was framed pretty early on in

whatever conversations I had with Kato, that they were not together, really.