Applaud to the Stars
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Arci, a once popular showbiz icon, now faces the day-to-day challenges of being a theater stage manager hoping to escape the grief of a dead best friend.
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Arcilla Celeste Valverde was a rising star, the most sought-after actress in the industry until she decided to quit, and no one knew why.
After the death of her best friend, she has never been the same. She lived her life hiding away in the rehearsal rooms at the theater or working overtime in her office. She had a routine made and followed to the smallest detail so that she would give no time for the grief to sink in.
Not until the embodiment of disorganization entered her well-planned life and slowly let reality hit her.
When everything went out of Arci's control, everything that she had let herself build up inside her: pain, anger, sadness, grief - all started to consume her. Would she still be able to escape this torment?
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