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I devour every review and piece of commentary written about Mad Men at work on Monday morning when I should be doing, well, work. I look forward to Tom and Lorenzo’s fashion reviews almost as much as the show itself. Obviously there was going to be a lot of discussion about Peggy and Don, specifically the dance they shared. While I was at work today and should have been doing work (are you sensing a pattern here?) I was trying to figure out why that scene – the conversation and the dance before it had such a profound impact on me and seemed to settle in my mind more than any other scene before it. A piece of commentary I read was that the look on Don’s face before he kissed the top of Peggy’s head could have been a romantic realization. I’ve also read that the dance was a paternal embrace. The way I see it, the look on Don’s face was that of disbelief and relief. He couldn’t believe their relationship was salvageable after all, because even though his actions showed otherwise he wants and needs Peggy in his life. Love isn’t a given for people like Don and Peggy. There are children in the world who don’t have to question a parent’s love, and there are people in the world that find love and it lasts. Don likely thought he’d lost Peggy and driven her away like so many people – mostly women.