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A stage performance in a dark purple-curtained hall with ornate gold carved pillars topped by lion figures. A woman in an orange-red dress with a white flower garland and beaded jewellery sits on a black-draped platform, her bare feet raised, and smiles while a second woman in an orange skirt and white blouse with her hair in a bun reaches out to clasp her hand. Red and gold decorative banners hang beside the pillars, and a patterned lavender fabric drapes at left. The scene appears to be a dramatic staged reenactment. Text in the lower right reads as a copyright credit.

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