Creative Writing: Eddie Redmayne

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The theater buzzes with energy and excitement, magic flowing throughout the room for the first time in five years as Eddie Redmayne appears on the silver screen. The crowd roars to life as four men from Baltimore take the stage, a sight I have waited to see so long that it nearly brings me to tears. The world of the Norse Gods springs to life as I join the teenage demigod Magnus Chase on another death-defying adventure. A sea of blue and gold overtakes Rider Stadium on a beautiful June day, and I celebrate with the people who I have seen everyday for the past four years for a final time. I sigh, looking at my dorm, which looks as though a history bomb has exploded inside of it, but at least it is not my childhood bedroom. I have endured the

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