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\n\tFor the past seven weeks, Harry Styles<\/a> has reserved two minutes at each of his Madison Square Garden shows<\/a> to reflect on the last time he gathered this many people in this room. Four years have passed since he performed 15 record-breaking nights at the venue during his Love on Tour.<\/a> Now, every night at the new Together, Together shows, which spans 30 nights at MSG, he acknowledges that \u201ca lot of life happened to me and landed on me in ways that maybe it hadn\u2019t before.\u201d<\/p>\n \n\tStyles doesn\u2019t usually go into much more detail; he typically just describes those in-between years as \u201ca great reminder for me of just how wonderful and beautiful, difficult and inspiring, and also how fragile a life can be.\u201d He encourages the audience to look around at each other and celebrate the community they\u2019ve built together. Then he dives into \u201cSign of the Times.\u201d It happens every Wednesday, Friday, and Saturday like clockwork. But when he delivered this speech on Friday, Oct. 16, there was a shift. It didn\u2019t conclude in its usual way.<\/p>\n \n\tInstead, Styles turned his attention to the banner commemorating his 15 consecutive nights at the Garden in 2022. \u201cIt means a lot to be able to look up there at my name up there from the last tour,\u201d he said. \u201cThere are so many people, friends and people that I\u2019ve worked with, that I would\u2019ve never been able to do this without.\u201d Two years ago, he continued, he lost one of those pillars. Friday\u2019s show fell on the same day as the second anniversary of the death of Liam Payne<\/a>, a loss that time has not made it easier to acknowledge<\/a>. \u201cI\u2019m sure a lot of you have been through something similar,\u201d Styles said. \u201cI hope you haven\u2019t.\u201d<\/p>\n \n\tA frequent assessment of Styles, both among his fans and those who\u2019ve only encountered him at a distance, is that he often talks at length<\/a> before getting to the point. He recognizes it himself on the Kiss All the Time. Disco, Occasionally<\/em> <\/a>song \u201cComing Up Roses,\u201d where he sings about fumbling his words. But recently, comments about his long-winded way of speaking have started to feel like purposeful misreadings. There are clear and carefully considered thoughts present between his starts and stops. Anyone truly listening will pick up on those threads.<\/p>\n