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About Me — Maggie Kelly
I sing. I dance. I make pop culture references. Creator of my own destiny.
Who are you?
That’s the question my English teacher posed to us my sophomore year in college. She asked us to take a few minutes to reflect. I had a few thoughts about this, then carefully penned my response. When the time was up, some students elected to share.
Ms. Stone looked at me with curiosity. She picked me out and asked what I wrote down.
I glanced down at my scribbled words and spoke.
“I am not a label.”
Ms. Stone smiled and laughed. “Maggie’s not playing my game.”
I’ve never been one to prescribe labels or allow myself to be put in a box.
For a long time, I gave myself the moniker Miss Nonconformist. Funny how that, in itself, was a label.
I was signaling to the world that I wasn’t going to play by the rules.
I’ve always gotten high off of proving people wrong and doing the unexpected.
In my high school drama class, we were doing charades. Everyone wrote something to say to go in the jar we would pull out of.
The teacher pulled out the scraps to see what was in there and happened to pull out…
