Confessions of a Superhero Page #5

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"and there's only one way

to get to Heaven,

"and there's this set of rules

that God has for everyone,

"and you should

just follow them,

Or you're going to hell."

And my mom was a little bit

more loose with that.

She let me be a human,

and she let me make mistakes.

And she knows all my mistakes,

But she knows

all my accomplishments as well.

And my dad missed out

on some of my accomplishments

Because he was too busy worrying

about mistakes.

The year

that she was a cheerleader,

They won the national champions,

didn't they?

They won the cheer-off.

It wasn't the national--

It was a cheer-off

at six flags over Georgia.

But they'd never done

that before.

No.

People thought

that I should love high school

And that I should--

I was voted miss union county

in high school

And best all-around

my senior year,

And I was homecoming Queen.

I was on homecoming court

my Junior year,

And I was voted miss freshman

And always--you would think

that I had a lot of fun,

But I hated high school.

I graduated early

to get out of there.

I just hated it so bad.

I just felt like

I was suffocating in that town.

(Karen Wenger)

she made a few "b"s,

you know, mostly "a"s,

And she made a few "b"s,

But that wasn't the important

thing for her in school.

It was socializing.

That was what she was here for:

To make everybody happy

By spreading

her own little quality,

Own little brand of sunshine

Around everybody's day

every day.

She thought that she

was put here to entertain

The people here.

This wasn't where she

was supposed to go and learn.

I always liked to perform.

Cheerleading, you know,

I loved to choreograph dances

and stuff like that.

So performing

was what I wanted to do.

I knew that.

She done many a musical or play

up there.

If people were gonna be

on a stage,

She wanted to be there too.

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Here's what happened the day

I decided to move to L.A.

I was at college.

I was a college cheerleader,

and I came home for fall break,

And I just laid on the floor

and cried.

She always had that little bit

of unhappiness about her.

She could never be

happy here.

And she and I were sitting

in the living room.

She was kind of upset

one night,

And she's like, "I'm never gonna

get to be what I want to be,

"do what I want to do,

you know.

I'm stuck here

in this town."

And it was just

blah, blah, blah.

She was real upset,

and I said,

"Jenny,

if you want to go, go.

And she said,

"well, do you want to get

on a plane and go to L.A.?"

And I said, "yes."

It's like she totally knew.

She goes, "how soon

do you think I could go?"

I said,

"when do you want to go?"

She said,

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