Becoming Us
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I had the perfect life.
By my senior year in high school, I was captain of my schools dance team. I had been homecoming queen twice. I’d been voted best body, best smile, best personality, most outgoing, most likely to become famous, best laugh, and best confidant. I was literally friends with everyone who was anyone. I was most likely to be voted this years senior prom queen.
Then she moved here.
Everything slipped away. All of my hard work fell down the drain. I lost it all.
But, if ever given the opportunity to go back and do it all again? I wouldn’t change a single thing.
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