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It wasn’t bad – it just wasn’t enough. Sometimes, he’d say it was true about his whole career but sometimes he would smile fondly at all the memories and smaller or bigger successes.
He packed the red shirt from his Greatest Showman free, just in case.
He wasn’t the main star though, maybe it would be too many French at the gala...
Gala is over and he puts the shirt on now. They let him say goodbye in an almost empty rink, without TV, without lights...
He gets to the starting pose and sends a kiss to the stands, to Mariah.