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Today’s story took place during my senior year of undergrad. Three friends (Ian, Megan, and Noelle) and I had been asked to perform a song-set from Leonard Bernstein’s Candide for the general music class of my rather strict, and extremely intimidating, voice teacher. So, the girls and I decided the night before to wear formal black and white for the performance and I must have forgotten to relay that bit of information to Ian. I will share more on that in a moment. Side note: Ian was quite well-known for his HUGE collection of Tommy Hilfiger attire and a silver tray filled (there must have been 25 bottles!) with various colognes that I often sampled. But, I digress. So, we arrived that next day in our formal black and white to greet my voice teacher and his class of about 20 college undergrads. Ian hadn’t arrived yet, but, he was coming from a distant class so we weren’t too concerned. Now, before I continue, I have to tell you about Megan’s “support belt.” Megan has a beautifu...