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In the show, high schooler David chooses Love Ballad (originally by Jeffrey Osborne of L.T.D.)

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as a song from his childhood to sing to his class.

Imagination ends up being the closest hell ever get to confessing his feelings.

But what makes the 1976 slow jam perfect for a 2019 story of two black boys navigating love?