Hereby monsters is a podcast about facing the unknown.

I start to float away from the earth.

Have you ever smoked crack before?

We're all kind of frantically searching for meeting.

They have the neurotransmitters. I think we're all

juggles in some way. Yeah, we're not broken.

Crazy delinquents. We're in our last day, young man.

Listen to Here Be Monsters,

the podcast about the unknown on the KCRW iTunes page.

From the Independent Producer Project on KCRW.com, I'm Bob Carlson, and this is Unfictional.

Unfictional is a program of true stories and personal documentaries, and on this episode Bell of the Ball

three stories of women who are at the center of attention for better or worse

beginning with an event that is a big deal to high schoolers, the prom, but especially when your prom queen or king or you long to be one.

That was Landon Patterson, whose bid for royalty at her Missouri high school came complete with a wave of international media attention and a visit from The Haters.

From KCRW.com, it's unfictional.

Hi, I'm making this video because I had some stuff I really wanted to get off my chest and this video is way

overdue. So going into my second semester of junior year, I wanted to come out obviously.

I wanted to get it across as like, this isn't such a crazy hard thing.

I told mostly like my family first and then I I did a video and I

uploaded that to Facebook and YouTube. I don't feel like I received myself as a boy I don't feel like I dress like I don't dress like a boy I don't act like a boy I'm the

farthest thing from a boy I'm 16 years old yeah I'm young but this is what I want and I was like I don't want to start this

journey when I'm 23 and have a beard or something I was like I need to do this now.

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