It was first noticeable at the age
of 6, Maggie would try to take care of her baby cousins, and neighbors instead
of play with the other elementary aged kids. Then again at 8, when she became
interested in novels that were turned into R rated movies….”Maggie are you sure
you want to read this story for your book report? It’s a little mature for you”
said her English teacher. At the age of 10, she was holding a family members hand
in an attempt to comfort them when in reality they should’ve been holding hers.
Years go by and the young girl
continues to excel in everything she does. She strives for perfection and in
the end always comes very close. From gymnastic meets to school exams she
hardly ever falters. She graduated high school with honors-luckily hard work
pays off! Despite getting into great schools she decides to stick around her
hometown and go to school locally, maybe it was fear, maybe it was the advice
her family had given her….staying local is cheaper, really?
Working her way through school
while studying hard to sustain her Dean’s list status she stayed in a lot and
would rather drink wine than margaritas and beer at bars like the majority of
her friends. Every summer in between college semesters she would get together
with friends from high school, but as summers came and went so did her friends.
She started to ask herself where they all had gone but eventually realized that
while they were out and having fun she was at home, studying, being boring,
acting 30….etc. Maggie finally graduated college with honors and continued on
her path of becoming a wedding planner. Realizing she had nothing holding her
back in the suburbs of New Hampshire she wondered off into Boston.
Years pass and she finds love…many
times but never on her end. She gets promoted and becomes the head wedding
planner in New York City, her dream job! It quickly became apparent to her that
although she had all kinds of satisfaction from achieving her dream she
realized how hard she had been working. Once she peaked out from the rock she
was under she saw the time that passed, she was grown and all by herself. When
Maggie’s mom woke her up that morning to go to school, she told her she would
never play dress up in her closet again.
