Why I have a crush on Ryan Gosling

I think I figured it out - he's a dead ringer for my first love. A man who was incapable of deceit, of cruelty. Those are not always strengths, but they were magic at sixteen. It's true. It's the shape of the apple of his cheek and the cut of his jaw, it's the line of his lip and the way his hair falls into his eyes. It is also his long, sinewy frame and the passion with which he moves through the role that he plays - but that is not necessarily Ryan Gosling - that is a character in a film, some other aberration of the man. Still, I enjoy looking on his face the same way I enjoy the first snowfall and the last brilliant leaf at the top of an old oak.