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The cook and the drummer (Featuring Salted Caramel Apple Roses)

The cook and the drummer (Featuring Salted Caramel Apple Roses)

The halls outside the audition rooms at USC’s Thornton School of Music were teeming with anxious parents. The fetid fusion of skittish pre-teen breath, college musicians’ armpits, and floral lotion-smeared moms burned my eyes. I paced the vinyl floor, squinting in the fluorescent lighting, trying