It gets no love just hovering down there in the darkness during the contestants' performances.

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Once through the doors of the auditorium, your eyes adjust to the darkness as you move down the aisle, taking it all in, from the balconies to the ornate ceiling to the group in the spotlight way down front.

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They whimpered and jumped about on the piled furniture, little ball-like humps in the darkness, until I finally managed to shoo them out the door and down the steps to where their mother would presumably reclaim them.

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He said people gathered together in the darkness to calm each other down for several hours.

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