I once accidentally sang 'Jingle Bells' with a tone-deaf crooner rendition in the school choir at our holiday talent show - in front of hundreds of people, most of whom I'd never met. My friends, who'd always claimed I could "totally hit the high notes," promptly abandoned me as I warbled awkwardly off-key. My sister's attempts to harmonize in time were met with a mixture of mortification and confusion from the crowd - as if unsure of who was being ridiculed more, me or the actual turkey we'd brought in as makeshift stage prop that kept escaping the props table.
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