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Imagine you're in your dressing room, getting ready for a performance.

This little space is hardly any bigger than a closet.

All you've got are a couple of folding chairs and a tiny, battered make-up table.

You study your reflection in the cracked mirror.

And did you get so old? Entire looking.

Yes. Are you alright? I said you're on.

Yes, five minutes. Her to the first time.

Not so long ago, you were a world or now in pianist.

You played the world's grandest concert halls.

You got standing oations.

But now, now your only option is to perform and run down places like this.

It's humiliating.

But you need the money.

As you gaze at your tired face in the mirror, you can't help but worry.

Last time you went on stage, you could barely play a note.

You turn away.

Try and study yourself with a deep breath.

It's best to put that behind you.

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