They say no one is indispensable. That is certainly true of ambassadors. But Amanda surely comes close to being the exception,

We called him one of his native state's most vocal ambassadors.

I certainly wouldn't want to be one quoted as saying that it was true.

No one expected him to be this close this soon.

There's no one in the West even close to the Spurs. They're so much better than anybody else.

Only now it had become indispensable to him to have her face pressed close to him; he could never let her go again. He could never let her head go away from the close clutch of his arm. He wanted to remain like that for ever, with his heart hurting him in a pain that was also life to him.