Secret Admiration: Finding True Love After Prison

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Rachel's smile froze in an instant.

The greater the hope, the greater the disappointment. At that moment, she felt a tightness in her chest, tears threatening to spill over.

"How is it possible that both awards went to Meryl?"

She couldn't wrap her head around it, convinced that there must have been some mistake on the organizers' part.

It was unprecedented for the special award and first place to be the same piece-why was Meryl receiving both?

Rachel was sure her arrangement was solid. Just a moment ago, she had sneakily checked the online voting results and saw she was consistently in the top three. There was no way she could walk away empty-handed!

Meanwhile, Meryl was still in a daze, completely taken aback that she was the one being honored.

She thought, "What a twist of fate! I was just going with the flow, and now look at this!"

Confused, Meryl instinctively glanced at her mentor, Harvey, who was seated among the judges.

He gave her a thumbs-up, a warm smile lighting up his face, It

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Meryl felt a wave of relief wash over her.

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She mused, "Harvey rarely praises anyone; his approval must mean my piece really struck a chord, especially since it was chosen by both the judges and the audience." The ceremony continued, and a staff member gestured for Meryl to step onto the stage.

All cameras turned to capture her expression.

The award presenter was Casey, a big name in the music industry. Just having him as a judge was a major coup for the competition.

The excitement in the room was palpable, with the livestream hitting a staggering 30 million viewers.

Casey, dressed sharply in a tailored suit, presented the trophy to Meryl, his fingers gently placing it in her hands.

"Congratulations!"

This was Meryl's first real interaction with Casey.

string from him through one of his assistants, but now, seeing the music prodigy up

the trophy, no one

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front of Meryl, snatching the microphone from

this competition! My scores were high too-why is she the one

to the stage, Rachel had learned her

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if she couldn't claim the special award, she was confident she

as she presented a piece of paper to the

scoring!" she shouted, having snatched it from a staff member just moments

on her face, which was a mix of excitement

in the venue shifted; judges whispered among themselves, and the audience murmured in

the host visibly startled. She

according to the committee, any work found to be

racing. The moment the host uttered

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the murmurs in the crowd

chat exploded with comments, the screen filling up

with

God, and

such a big competition?

away with this? Plagiarists should get the boot from the

her legs wobble beneath her, but she

doesn't

"There was a post on Twitter a couple of days ago with a piece that sounds a lot

disqualified, and we reserve the right

familiar melody of the original

sounds so familiar-it's almost

A competition this big, and they let a plagiarist in? This turns everything on its

can she still stand there after being

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of this piece! Is it wrong to adapt my own work for this competition?], Sure, it was a 48-hour

cleverly capitalized on this loophole, which gave her the audacity to enter the contest

phone and opened her Twitter feed, revealing a post she had made just days

that the "no name" account that had raised a stir online was actually

and leading many to rethink their support for "Sweet Savage." [Well, sure, it seems a bit iffy, but if she's the one behind