QUOTE (cookie-monster @ May 27 2008, 10:35 AM)

Okay i read in another post that there should be a post about Makeover. Here you go!
Ha, ha, that was me! I said it on that post, and I'll say it again. I got chills the first time I heard that song because I thought he must have somehow written it about me. The whole song pulls at my soul, but there is a line, "her broken legs won't let her walk away, from this town that couldn't give a single shit either way".... I have to know where that line came from. What is the story there? I was in a terrible car accident and crushed both of my legs when I was 15. Originally they were supposed to amputate them, but decided on some experimental prosthetic implants instead (after I threatened to kill myself if they cut my legs off). Well, I was in a wheelchair for a long time, and there were a lot of circumstances that followed that wouldn't let me leave that hellhole of a town. One being that my surgeon was the only one who could perform the many "tweaks" I needed for my legs. Another was a boyfriend who I went out with because he was the only person who was nice to me when I was scarred and in a wheelchair. I stayed with him for 4 years because I felt I owed him after he was nice to me and gave up many things including an acceptance to Harvard to stay near him (although I did attend a very distinguished college there). I ended up staying in this aweful town that tore at my soul and that one line from Makeover sums up 8 of the worst years of my life. I hear that line and it cuts to my very soul and I am immediately in tears. I want to know where it came from because I can't imagine it fitting another person's life better than mine.
Don't feel too bad for me though. My surgeries are over and you'd never know that I'd ever had one if I didn't tell you. You can tell from my profile picture that I'm not a monster or anything (although, trust me, I was for a couple of years). Sorry for the sad story, but I can't express enough how touching that song is to me, and I love David for being able to touch me that way.