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Sweet ContestLOCATION: Parking Lot , La Crosse, WI, USAYEAR: 2007TAGS: freak out, crying, sadness, disappointment, singing, performingPUBLISHED: March 2, 2008A very, very recent memory from the summer of last year. Last summer I moved from a little tiny town called Independence that's a while north of here (La Crossem, WI). When I got out of that miserable little place, I was so sure that my life was going to get nothing but better, and when I heard that there was a contest for singers up in Eau Claire, I was all for it. I signed up with a few weeks to prepare, and decided on the songs I'd perfom. I got really good at them both. I just knew I'd win this thing if I got the chance to do it. And then at the last minute I found out I wasn't going to be able to make the trip because of a lack of funds for gas or other transportation. I figured this out when I was in the car with my mother, but I didn't do anything until she left me alone for a few minutes to go into a gas station. Maybe it was just that I wanted to sing. Or maybe it was the pressure of everything else just built up and spat out at once. I cried. I screamed. I cried some more. Then, for the third time in my life, I went into a hyperventilation fit which lasted more than a minute. When my mother came out of the gas station, I had dried my eyes and just sat staring out the window for the rest of the ride home. On the car radio, Hootie and the Blowfish was playing "Let Her Cry." Which was a perfect fit for the situation... I couldn't stop a few more salty tears from falling.
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CrystalLouise replied to sunshinelikeacid's comment:
Awe that is so sad that you couldn't make it. I am sorry.
That's alright... thank you. There may be this year again though. I really hope so, in fact, I ought to look it up. (3/12/2008)
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