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If there was

one thing

Emily didn't

expect to have

even once in her life,

it was the applause of

an entire crowd.

Just as Emily added the

light glimmer to the

ethereal eye,

the crowd had lost their

control.

The haunting eye

opened out into

the endless twist of

glittering stars and cosmos,

it felt like they had

jetted straight out to

the stars themselves,

even though their

feet were firmly

planted onto the earth's ground.

The cheer stalked

through Emily's ear

with a wild crashing of

her heart inside.

She turned around,

the most genuine smile

she'd ever been able to

manage for such a long time.

Emily couldn't breathe.

And her insides rung with

the voices of people

she didn't know her entire life.

They had no reason to

support her.

Emily was no one to them.

But her art.

Her work.

Her sincerity.

And her talent.

It was all enough

to waltz her out of

the nobody she used to be.

This girl was capable of

more than she ever gave

herself credit for.

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