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Hi listeners, I'm Marlene Martinez and I have a story I want to tell you.

A story of a hopeless romantic, lured by her desires down a path of demise.

So gather round and listen close.

There are those who've got it all. Money, looks, talent, and then there's everyone else.

The people just living to get by the normal guy or girl with the normal life.

Your average Joe's.

That's where I live.

Dead and center. The normal of the normal.

It's where I've always lived, no matter how hard I tried.

Growing up I'd spend hours studying, but my grades were nothing more than okay.

So the best I could do was get into an okay college, which finally landed me a job that was,

you guessed it, just okay.

At work I'd be the first one in, last one out, dedicated,

but for every promotion I was passed up for someone else.

Even among my friends I wasn't anyone special.

No one's BFF and far from the life of the party.

But I got used to all that.

Sure I would still fantasize.

I'd wonder how it would feel working your dream job or even sitting at a bar

and having a drink sent over just because someone liked the way I looked.

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