Stage Kiss - Sarah Ruhl

She
There’s this Japanese story about a woman who loved this man, her soulmate from
childhood. Her parents made her marry a farmer instead.
She ran off anyway with her soulmate and had kids with him. Years later she comes
back to her family and says, “I’m sorry I ran away!” and they say “What? You’ve
been here the whole time. You’ve been ill in bed!” and she meets this other version
of herself, this ghost, she embraces this woman and they become one person and
it’s this parable like, which one is the ghost?
Ever since I left you, I thought that in some parallel ghost world we had kids, we
rowed by a canal, I thought that part of me would be a ghost forever without you. I
was no longer real even when I was happy. I was no longer real, especially when I
was happy. But no, all along in real time, you’ve gone on being you and I’ve gone on
being me and yes, I really love you enough to be ghosted by you my entire life, but
my God, I left you for a reason.