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The final word

Why is it so thrilling to see someone pouring their heart out on stage when we know it’s manufactured? Why do we make heroes out of professional pretenders?

When I was an emotionally repressed teenager, the lives of people in movies seemed more real than my own. In my experience, true feelings had to carefully be kept private. But an actor could safely

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