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File:View of a performance on stage from the wings.jpg - Wikimedia Commons
hats and robes are not tooooooo dissimilar to the regalia that academics wear :-)

I am in the darkness, before the show begins, making small talk with a young woman from Korea who is in the wings of the biggest theatre in the region to cross the stage in her wheelchair to accept her diploma and shake the Chancellor’s hand. It’s her convocation day, and b…

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