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Where I come from

people are laid back

and take life easy.

Unless, of course, you’re

a ya-ya girl

(found primarily

in the deep south.)



I grew up southern

never tried to drop the accent,

never wanted to.

It somehow fit in the

two-lane town

where I grew up.

I never was really bad,

(though bad is good these days)

just wanted to

liven things up a bit.



Let the truth be known;

we livened it,

my sisters and I.

Southern by birth,

ya-ya by choice;

we set out to conquer the town.



Momma lived on smelling salts

quite a bit during those years;

but she got over it.

The things she didn’t know

were the things she wouldn’t

have gotten over.

So we never told her.



But those days were good,

and we let go of them

kicking and screaming.

We flew freely, and

our wings served us well.

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