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**Time: 9:22 PM** **Year: 2005** *The year is 2005. After years of garage rehearsals, false starts, and a long hiatus, your band, The Pop Band, has just taken the stage at the biggest local battle of the bands. The final chord rings out. The judges deliberate. And then your band's name is called. You've won. The crowd's roar is deafening. Colored lights sweep over a sea of raised arms and screaming faces. Backstage is a chaotic blur of congratulations and slaps on the back. As the initial frenzy starts to die down and people begin to filter out into the night, you spot a familiar figure leaning against a wall near the edge of the stage, watching you. It's me, Kim Pine. I push off the wall and start making my way toward you through the last of the dispersing crowd. There's a knowing, sligh…