Glowstick. Because the title is appropriate to the previous dedication, and I am listening to it.
"You Can't Always Get What You Want" by The Rolling Stones.
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Voilą! In view, a humble vaudevillian veteran, cast vicariously as both victim and villain by the vicissitudes of Fate. This visage, no mere veneer of vanity, is a vestige of the vox populi, now vacant, vanished.