The Deepest Well by Nadine Burke Harris

Author:Nadine Burke Harris
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

True to his word, Lurie had the Tipping Point throw its weight into funding our dream by making the benefit its biggest ever. The organ-­izers hired a production company to make a jazzy video to promote the center’s vision and somehow even managed to land John Legend as the benefit’s headliner. The evening was a smash that I remember in surreal snatches of excitement and color. I wore a black vintage Oscar de la Renta dress scored from a consignment shop and my lucky four-inch heels that were hell on my musculoskeletal system but that made me feel like anything was possible. (When I got to sit next to John Legend at dinner, I made a mental note never to throw those shoes away.) Halfway through the night Lurie got up on the stage and introduced our plan for the center. The video completed his call to action, and he then started the bidding. The philanthropists of the Bay Area and the titans of tech responded, their glow sticks bobbing in the darkened room. The next thing I knew, Tipping Point had raised $4.3 million and John Legend had taken the stage and was belting out my favorite song. As a doctor I know you can’t die of happiness, but when I stepped out onto the dance floor in my lucky heels, for a moment it felt dangerously possible.

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