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ave you ever been late for something—a meeting or a lunch out—and found that once you got there, wrestled your jacket off, and caught your breath, you couldn’t stop feeling as if you were playing catch-up? Maybe in your mind you kept review ing why things went off the rails that morning, or you started wonder ing how to make this meeting still end on time and not throw off the rest of your day. Or perhaps the reverse has happened facebook.com/katewhiteauthor with someone you twitter.com/katemwhite were meeting. Let’s say the person was late, and although you wanted to move on, she kept apolog izing. I thought this was going to hap pen to me recently. My entertain ment director, Tracy, and I were having lunch with a celebrity agent in L.A., and after we’d been waiting for a while, the agent e-mailed saying she was running late because of a personal emer gency. We totally understood and were glad she could still come. Finally, the agent arrived. I expected a few flustered moments and perhaps some rehashing. But
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that didn’t happen. The agent, who looked dazzling, apologized sincerely and got down to business. We had a terrific meeting that never became undone because of the way it began. Later, my entertainment director and I commented on how impressed we were with this woman. “She has an amazing reputation,” Tracy told me. “What people always say about her is that she’s so focused. She’s always engaged and in the moment.” And I realized that’s how she’d been that morning. She’d quickly let go of the late issue and acted as if we were the only things that mattered. She never checked her iPhone, even though a huge movie starring one of her clients had just opened. She was always in the moment. It made me realize that given how busy and fragmented our lives are today, we have a tendency some times not to stay in the moment—to jump to what just happened or to what’s ahead. At breakfast that day, I saw firsthand the value of being with someone who is fully engaged. Oh, by the way, the agent did make one reference to the late issue. She apologized about it later, on the note that accompanied the flowers she sent to my hotel room!
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Behind the Scenes at Cosmo Leah showed off her moves (and incredible voice!) in Cosmo’s lobby.
Gus couldn’t keep his paws off the April issue.
Staff Sergeant Casey Teague snapped this Cosmo moment on a C-17 between Kyrgyzstan and Bagram Air Base. His mom, Kimberly, sent it our way.
Military women <3 Cosmo, and we <3 them!
Pharrell stopped by to introduce singer Leah Labelle and her new song “Sexify,” which was inspired by Cosmo’s famous cover lines. Check it out at cosmopolitan.com/sexify.
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It’s tough to choose who’s cuter—Animal Planet’s Dave Salmoni or Gus, the baby tiger he recently brought to our office.
(White) Keith Major Photography. (Soldiers) SSgt. Casey Teague. (Tiger) Malia Griggs. (Salmoni) Ray Tamarra/Everett Collection.
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