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    Improvisational comedy student Lindsey Hersey is animated before her first performance in the lounge at the Spare Time bowling alley in Portland in February. “I want to do things that are challenging, that I’m scared of, that if I don’t do now I will regret in the future,” she said.

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    Improvisational comedy student Lindsey Hersey is animated with her instructor Rachel Flehinger before her first performance in the lounge at the Spare Time bowling alley in February.

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    Improvisational comedy student Lindsey Hersey, right, and her instructor, Rachel Flehinger, hug before Hersey's first performance in the lounge at the Spare Time bowling alley in Portland in February. “If I’m gonna bomb, I’m gonna bomb big,” Hersey said.

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    Improvisational comedy student Lindsey Hersey listens to the opening comedy act before her first performance in the lounge at the Spare Time bowling alley in Portland in February. After completing two comedy courses, she performed in a sketch with her teacher's improv group, Running with Scissors, for her first time on stage.

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    Lindsey Hersey improvises a character during her first performance in the lounge at the Spare Time bowling alley in Portland in February. After an improv class a few weeks earlier, her teacher asked Hersey if she wanted to test what she’d learned in front of an audience.

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