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Newtown resident Kiersten Lynch knows how to deliver a graduation speech. The Class of 2013 Salutatorian at St. Joseph's High School in Trumbull begins by addressing the faculty, but her speech soon takes a turn for the quirky when she asks:
"I know we just started, but how about a little ukulele break?"
Lynch is a student at Southbury Music Studio, and shows off her chops before going on to deliver an excellent graduation speech afterwards. She even uses her ukulele training as an example of how "the best things in life are useless."
"Useless" things, she says, aren't pointless -- they're the things that make life worth living.
"Playing the ukulele? It's useless," she says. "But that's exactly why I urge you to find your ukulele in life and play it. It won't always be perfect or easy, and it may be challenging. You may find criticism waiting for you and the strings may have to be tuned now and then. But put your whole heart and soul into it, for the love and doing it and nothing more. If you combine your hard work ethic with something you're passionate about just for the sake of itself and nothing beyond it, you will most certainly find happiness in life."
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