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Subject: Slightly revised the ending, to hopefully make the transition clearer. (r)

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Date Posted: 12:38:39 07/08/02 Mon
In reply to: Nestra 's message, "It's done. Mostly done. I hope." on 07:08:43 07/03/02 Wed

picking up at...

The tension of the past day flares inside him and prods him into anger. "Confused? Of course I'm confused. I've spent most of the past six years being Mick and being you. What am I supposed to do now?"

Mr. Jones smiles, and for a moment, the tilt to his mouth reminds him of Nikita. "Why, Martin. Just be yourself."

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He's nineteen years old, and after months of auditions, the first job he gets is a three-week run of Othello. The theater leaks, and the pay is only slightly better than nothing, but it's still a job. Every night, he puts on his makeup and steps on the stage, and it doesn't matter that the house is only half-full of eighty-year old women and reluctant students. The thrill still runs through him, the energy of live performance shuddering in his veins. He speaks words written five hundred years ago, and he can't imagine ever doing anything else.

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