Someone to hold you too close

Sondheim, imagining marriage, Love on the Spectrum.

Last week, I woke up at 3 am two nights in a row with “Being Alive,” Stephen Sondheim’s uniquely shattering homage to marriage from his musical Company, stuck running through my head. This isn’t entirely random. Sondheim passed away last week, at the age of 91, and in the wake of his passing, I was compelled to put on a Spotify playlist of Sondheim’s gr…