Beautiful

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[GWEN:]
September 1st, 1989
Dear Diary:
I believe I'm a good person. You know, I think that there's good in everyone, but—here we are! First day of senior year!
And uh... I look around at these kids that I've known all my life and I ask myself—what happened?

[KIDS:]
Freak! Slut! Burnout! Bug-eyes! Poser! Lard-ass!

[GWEN:]
We were so tiny, happy and shiny
Playing tag and getting chased

[KIDS:]
Freak! Slut! Loser! Shortbus!

[GWEN:]
Singing and clapping, laughing and napping
Baking cookies, eating paste

[KIDS:]
Bull-dyke! Stuck-up! Hunchback!

[GWEN:]
Then we got bigger, that was the trigger
Like the Huns invading Rome
Oh, Sorry!
Welcome to my school, this ain't no high school:
This is the Thunderdome
Hold your breath and count the days, we're graduating soon

[KIDS:]
White trash!

[GWEN:]
College will be paradise, if I'm not dead by June!
But I know, I know, life can be beautiful
I pray, I pray for a better way
If we changed back then, we could change again
We can be beautiful...

[GWEN:]
Just not today
Hey, are you okay?

[JUSTIN:]
Get away, nerd

[GWEN:]
Oh, okay

[KIDS:]
Freak! Slut! Cripple! Homo! Homo! Homo!

[GWEN:]
Things will get better soon as my letter
Comes from Harvard, Duke, or Brown
Wake from this coma, take my diploma
Then I can blow this town
Dream of ivy-covered walls and smoky French cafés

[GEOFF:]
Watch it!

[GWEN:]
Fight the urge to strike a match and set this dump ablaze!

[GEOFF:]
Oops

[GWEN:]
Geoffrey Algolen. Third year as linebacker and eighth year of smacking lunch trays and being a huge dick

[GEOFF:]
What did you say to me, skank?

[GWEN:]
Aah, nothing!

[GWEN:] But I know, I know... [KIDS:] I know, I know...

[GWEN:] Life can be beautiful [KIDS:] Beautiful[GWEN:] I pray, I pray [KIDS:] I pray, I pray[GWEN:] For a better way [KIDS:] For a better way[GWEN:] We were kind before; [KIDS:] Ooh...[GWEN:] We can be kind once more [KIDS:] Ooh...[GWEN:] We can be beautiful... [KIDS:] Ooh... Beautiful...

[GWEN:]
Ugh!... Hey Beth

[BETH:]
Hey

[GWEN:]
Beth Yentsen. My best friend since diapers

[BETH:]
We on for movie night?

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