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🐱: I think it really people think that we might be comparing ourselves to different K-pop artists, being in competition with them, wanting to beat them. I think more than competition, we just thought about ways to try to gather more fans. As maybe a joke, maybe not a joke, as rookies, I remember going to a lot of these events and seeing waves of fans of other people's, and then not seeing a lot of our fans because we were rookies. I always told my members, "Let's just bring 10 each. You bring 10 more fans, and I'll bring 10 more fans". And I think that was the goal of each event that we went to. If you want to call that a competition, I guess it's a competition, but how I felt was a little bit different.

🐱: Because I did train for so long, there are definitely a few moments where I just wanted to go back to America and kind of give up on everything. I knew even at that age that this wasn't the end of the world for me, even if I did quit. So in those moments I always thought of different futures that I could make for myself. There was one moment where I really... I told the company I quit, and I went back to America, and I was looking up colleges that I could go to and looking through all those colleges, I kind of thought about what else I could do. But me being me, I was like, "I'll think about it at college." So I just looked up college, and I think that was about it.