Write a story about someone who has put “Blood Sweat & Tears” into getting where they are — only to question whether it was worth it.

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“When the cheering dies down” by Sally Atl

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Thousands of people are chanting his name, and their candles’ lights wave in the darkness of the stadium. The joy and excitement that lived in his dance and voice disappeared when he left the stage and hid behind the curtains. Sweat drips all over his body and he starts shivering from the cold. It takes twenty or so minutes before the voices die down. When he turns to see it again, the stadium looks empty. Someone covers his neck with a towel:-"You did well. Your car is waiting for you.”The driver, whom he called Tiger for his raspy voice, l...

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“Coming to Peace” by Karen Derenbecker

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Coming to Peace by Karen Derenbecker Slavka (name meaning “she who achieved greatness”) was just a teenager when the time came that she had to secretly leave her beloved city of Prague and her much cherished mother, father, and brother behind for her safety. She had grown up with Hitler’s Nazi occupation from the age of six turning seven until the age of fourteen. Prague, a city of deep beauty with its landscape, architecture, culture and Prague Castle where Hitler in 1939 declared that the Czechoslovak people...

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