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Constance McMillen's school cancelled the prom because she wanted to wear a tux and bring a female date. She sued and the court agreed her civil rights had been violated, but the school was under no obligation to reinstate the prom. Various celebs offered to pay for a prom, offered to have McMillen and her date fly out to some cool party somewhere, but she just wanted to go to her high school prom. A group of parents got together and decided to hold a prom. Word was, McMillen wouldn't be invited. Then, at the last moment, the AP reported that she would be.

Happy ending?

Wrong.

Turns out McMillen and some other students deemed undesirable (including at least two with learning disabilities) were sent to a fake prom that fewer than ten people attended while the real prom went on somewhere else.

Graveyard of the Automat Machines. I remember going to the automat in midtown with my parents in the 1970s.

Marketing and organ donation.

Scrabble should be hard. Fuck these new rules.

I've been reading a lot about coal mining death statistics over the last 100 years today, and now have a sudden urge to do a story involving coal mines set right after WWII. I don't know what it's about, or any of the characters, or, you know, ANYTHING, but such is my brain.

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I had the same flash back to Carrie. What a great lesson these adults have taught their children. Its OK to be lie and be mean to people who are different than you. Its OK to exclude your classmates from a party because they don't meet your standards of 'normalcy.' And McMillen is an incredibly classy young lady. I hope she continues her life with as much grace and intelligence as she's shown through this whole disgusting episode.

As for the rest of these kids...well something tells me that most of them aren't likely to be 'winners in life.' Its evil, I know, but I visualize them getting married right out of high school, rolling out a bunch of babies, sitting around with their nothing lives remembering their glory days - the big hair, sex in the pickup truck, playing football, underage drinking moonshine along with excluding the gay woman and the disabled from their prom. Something to treasure and tell the grand-babies about no doubt. The highlight of their pathetic, meaningless lives.