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The lab lights hummed over Wayne’s unfinished machine. Today was the presentation. He stood before the whiteboard, nerves warring with excitement. One by one, colleagues drifted out, shaking heads. A joke from a peer sealed the room’s fate—empty, save for you. Now, Wayne packed his tools in silence, humiliation and disappointment heavy in the air. He had truly believed in this.