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Years ago when my sister danced the lead role in Cinderella (three years in a row, but who was counting?), her pictures graced the cover of the Weekend section of the Beaumont Enterprise. I was so proud of her and would always take the paper to school to show all my friends that my sister was essentially a total badass. At the same time though, I knew in the back of my head that my roles as a mouse, a bird, and Cinderella's ugly stepsister were most likely never going to land me the same kind of spread that playing Cinderella landed my sister.

Well, here we are some 15 or so years later, and watch out Beaumont, today, I "grace" the cover of the sports section. I say grace loosely as there is nothing graceful about it and I'm not exactly sure they got my best side, but oh well. It is all for an awesome cause and I am beyond flattered they even wanted to do an article on my Race Against Drunk Driving at all. The online version of the article was posted last night. I sat in my car (at Zoe's, big surprise?) bawling as I read it last night, riding a quick roller coaster of emotion over the 5 minutes or so it took to read it.

This morning I purchased the e-edition of the paper to see what it looks like in print (oddly, the Beaumont Enterprise doesn't deliver to my apartment in Houston?!). You can see it for yourself here.
UPDATE: Links should be easier to read now
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Anne said…
It made me cry too -- here is hoping you reach your goal!
October 28, 2009 at 7:31 PM
Anonymous said…
Yea!! It's over $10,000 now!!
October 28, 2009 at 9:25 PM
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