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Where and How does perfect go wrong?

Submitted by creativegal634 on November 18, 2008 - 00:26.

I wonder when she became who she is.
She was the IT girl of a small high school. She had the perfect hair, body, grades, friends. The perfect talk and the perfect walk. The perfect boyfriend. No one could speak against her because she was perfect. Well, except her mom. She hated her mom.
Cliche.
She loved her siblings, and helped her dad. She had the perfect life. She did everything right. She graduated valedictorian. So did her boyfriend. She made up with her mom. She got married, with the perfect ceremony.
She was full of vitality and cuteness. She was interesting and interested.
When she was going to college she was popular there too. She stood out in a big school as much as she did in a small school. She had all her dreams within reach. She finished college and had a cheerful baby girl. She worked hard to pay for her husband's college. Grandma would help to babysit. Nothing could defeat her. She had gotten everything she worked for. She was perfect, she was never wrong.

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