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^ here you go~
When she was 12, she heard a gospel choir sing during a festival and was really impressed with their voices, so she joined a gospel choir herself. But after finishing junior high school, she quit the choir. She mentions: "It wasn't fun anymore, to be alive."
Then she adds, "I hated myself, I couldn't do anything. I wondered, 'what am I alive for?' When I became an adult, the way the people around me treated me changed. I felt like if I had to live with responsibility. I had no confidence in myself. Being alive was no longer fun."
Then they shift to Jasmine's close friend Ogawa, "When I heard her sing at karaoke, I felt that it wasn't just an ordinary person singing. Hearing her could give me goose bumps and could make me cry. So I told her that she should be confident of herself."
Shift to Jasmine, "She asked me 'Why aren't you trying harder?'. She said, 'Asumi (Jasmine's real name), you're better than you think'. She praised me. I had never been praised like that before."
Ogawa's words gave Jasmine confidence and she re-entered a gospel choir. And when she was 18, she passed an audition for a record company.
Shift to Jasmine, "It felt great to be praised. If I look back at it now, it was only a little thing, but at that time it was a huge step."
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