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of it. He took a deep breath and walked onto the dance floor.
As he moved into the crowd, a silence
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. The other guests gathered around Little Brother. Finally someone asked him what on earth he was.
Little Brother bowed deeply and
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, “I am the court lobster.”
Then: laughter.
Not ridicule — just
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. They loved him. They loved his sweetness, his weirdness, his giant red claws, his skinny legs in his bright tights. He was the trickster among them, and he
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the party. Little Brother even ended up dancing with the queen of Belgium.
I have never created anything in my life that did not make me feel like I was the guy who just walked into a fancy ball wearing a homemade lobster costume. But you must
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walk into that room, and you must hold your head high. Never
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for it, never explain it away, and never be ashamed of it. You did your best with what you knew, and you worked with what you had, in the time you were given.
Sometimes it’s like that. What you absolutely must not do is walk out. Otherwise you will miss the party, and that would be a pity
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we did not come all this great distance, and make all this great effort, only to miss the party at the last moment.
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