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*Happy

"Joe come here sweetie we have the beauty pageant tryouts today".

My mother said as she ushered me to come into the house from the yard since I had been outside all day and had got rather dirty. I came inside and my mother demanded me to take a shower. After I had finished washing up I came into my bedroom to find a coyboy costume that i would be wearing for my pageant audition today. I had never completely enjoyed these pageants but they brought in a decent income for my parents and I was 'happy' in life so I played along and never thought of it as the way my parents used me and basically ran me like a cow so they good go out and eave me all alone. At age 12 though I knew how to take care of myself and I practically ignored them until the pageants rolled around and they acted like I was pure gold.