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-Hey, guys. -Hi, guys.
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-Hello, we are... -[all] BTS.
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And this is RM.
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Dear Class of 2020,
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it's been a strange year so far,
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but you made it.
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Today, we might not have flowers,
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and we might not have graduation caps.
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What we do have is possibly
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the most special graduation ceremony in history.
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Never before have so many gathered to celebrate a graduating class
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for their achievements and their dreams.
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You could be watching us from your bed
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or from your living room,
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alone or with somebody.
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Wherever you are,
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you will all soon be breaking out of one world to soar into another.
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Ten years ago,
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it snowed really hard
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on the day of my middle school graduation.
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I remember that day clearly
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because I took a picture with my friends,
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and kept it as my messenger profile
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for the rest of my school years.
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On that day,
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I was just a boy
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who had closed just one chapter
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ready to pen another.
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And I remember that feeling,
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it's really thrilling and breathtaking.
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It was a moment I felt most like me, myself.
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A feeling I wanted to hold onto forever.
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So, as a fellow individual in his 20s,
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all the way from Seoul, Korea,
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I want to say, congratulations.
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[clapping]
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We're very excited for what lies ahead of you.
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Regardless of where or how far you are,
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we hope our stories today can give you some sort of comfort,
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hope and maybe even a bit of inspiration.
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[whistles]
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[speaking Korean]
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[speaking Korean]
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[speaking Korean]
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[laughs]
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[speaking Korean]
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[speaking Korean]
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[speaking Korean]
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[in English] Dear Class of 2020,
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I hope our stories reached you all today.
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To be really, really frank,
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we still feel very unsure and unsettled as we speak,
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just like the day we left the school gates
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for the last time on graduation day.
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Some say we have achieved so many things,
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but we stand no different from any other youth in their 20s,
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our graduation caps still pressed to our heads,
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and awkwardly peering into the face of reality.
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The recent unforeseen events completely changed our plans,
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and the sense of loss and anxiety we felt then, are still with us today.
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The fear of an obscure future
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as our daily lives turn upside down,
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is a moment of realization of the self,
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the realization of what makes me a true me, myself.
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Us, as musicians,
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we are pulling ourselves together by making music.
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We write songs, we produce,
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and we practice as we think about the people we love.
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And it connects to the world during such difficult times.
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And with music, we hope we can bring you smiles and courage again.
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And V just mentioned memos and the photographs.
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For us, our way of remembering
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and communicating is to make music.
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For you, it could be anything.
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And our music and in our hearts,
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and in the time that we break out of ourselves,
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we're alone, but also together.
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We may be seeing each other through just a camera and this small screen,
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but I know your future will bloom to something
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much bigger and magnificent.
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Graduates,
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friends, family, faculty,
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today, you stand with us, the largest graduating class in history.
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[speaking Korean]
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[all in English] Congratulations, Class of 2020!
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[all cheering]