12/09/2024
"You're really going to that concert?" Sharon's mother asked with judgment. "You're too old for this! You should sell that ticket. I checked—you could make $1,500 from it! It could help with bills!"
Sharon hesitated for a moment. The idea of making $1,500 was tempting — she needed this extra money, but... This concert was a chance to do something spontaneous, something for herself, for once in life.
"I will go, Mom," Sharon said. "It's about doing something for me, for once. Besides, what could happen?"
A few hours later.
Robbed, exhausted, with nothing on her — no phone, no wallet, no suitcase — Sharon somehow still made it to the concert. A thousand times, she told herself she should have just sold the ticket, gone home, and forgotten about this horrible day. But something inside her kept whispering: her dream was so close.
Finally, squeezing through the crowd toward the stage, she lifted her head, and when she saw WHO was standing there about to sing, she was shocked and speechless.
"No way… but how?!" raced through her mind.
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