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After listening to the Ducks growl for twoin the locker room until practice was over I know this isn’t exactly what my mother had in mind when she toldcheerleaders if ere as far away fro to start throwing punches

We had an immediate connection and neither one of us was afraid to admit that it eird Like me, she mostly hated other people and kept to herself and her father forced her into joining the cheerleading squad because her mother moved away to "find herself" and he was afraid that, without some other female influence in her life, she would turn into a crazy cat lady or open fire at a post office one day

I quickly found out her shirt was, in fact, a tribute to Heathers and we spent twenty ently with a chainsaas probably the best sentence ever uttered in the history of the world and, from that moment on, we never spent more than a few hours apart from each other

My parents and her father weren’t too thrilled with the fact that we quit the cheerleading squad before we’d even technically eniuses e banded together for a cause They quickly realized that our friendship wasn’t to beevery waking h school lives alone in our roo to The Cure, ould be okay We had each other and nothing else irls, is how the dynamic duo of Liz and Claire caht want to put on that seatbelt Ito need it

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"SO, I HAVE cancer Who wantssmile

I know it’s probably not the most appropriate response to the words that just left h

And once I start, I can’t stop It could be due to the aht at our favorite bar, Fosters, or it could be the fact that, while this is the worst joke in the history of jokes, it still has to be a joke since Claire is s

"Ooooh, I have so for that!" Jenny announces as she reaches for her purse on the e around, she holds out a tube of Blistex in Claire’s direction

"Why in the hell are you giving lass and eht

Claire used to work at Fosters back when she was a single o behind the bar whenever we’re here and help herself to whatever she wants Soerous that we never have to wait for a waitress to refill our glasses and I’ to prove that point

"It’s nothing to be ashaet it all the tione in a few days," Jenny says cheerfully