shay gentry
i first met miss gentry an hour into my first day at work. i met her fifteen times. that is, fifteen envelopes with the signature shay gentry return address stamp later, i was starting to become a bit impressed. as damon remarked, "oh she's infamous throughout this office, we get a daily dosage of shay gentry everyday."
i wasn't in the office for the remainder of the week but as i came in the next, i was more than impressed. there she was, amidst all seventy-something hopeful girls hoping to win from our latest contests, sparkling on about thirty different envelopes. as i sorted through all the contest mail it became more evident who shay gentry is. i scanned the return address, a local. mission viejo. each and every envelope was the same, a small business one with a handwritten address. whether it's "teen magazine: cool treat contest" or "teen magazine: summer skin contest", at least ten envelopes come in a day from her. i imagined an intelligent, well put together girl of about thirteen or fourteen sitting at her birch wood desk in her room decorated with posters of justin timberlake to shane west, writing these envelopes every day hoping to be the winner of each one of our contests.
you could say i've grown a little fond of shay gentry. it almost feels like we have a personal connection, she addressing her envelopes while i sort through them days later. though i'll probably never meet her, i wish i could tell her that i admire her. i admire her determination, her diligence, her drive to win all our contests. at such a young age, i want to tell her to keep that determination she has because it'll only bring her further in whatever she decides to embark on in the future. perhaps we were all a bit like shay gentry when we were younger but a good portion of us has lost it somewhere between the days of ditching high school to sleeping through college lectures. for people like me who was once an idealistic version of shay gentry, it'd help if we were instilled with a little bit of shay gentry right now. we all could use a little shay gentry in us.
i first met miss gentry an hour into my first day at work. i met her fifteen times. that is, fifteen envelopes with the signature shay gentry return address stamp later, i was starting to become a bit impressed. as damon remarked, "oh she's infamous throughout this office, we get a daily dosage of shay gentry everyday."
i wasn't in the office for the remainder of the week but as i came in the next, i was more than impressed. there she was, amidst all seventy-something hopeful girls hoping to win from our latest contests, sparkling on about thirty different envelopes. as i sorted through all the contest mail it became more evident who shay gentry is. i scanned the return address, a local. mission viejo. each and every envelope was the same, a small business one with a handwritten address. whether it's "teen magazine: cool treat contest" or "teen magazine: summer skin contest", at least ten envelopes come in a day from her. i imagined an intelligent, well put together girl of about thirteen or fourteen sitting at her birch wood desk in her room decorated with posters of justin timberlake to shane west, writing these envelopes every day hoping to be the winner of each one of our contests.
you could say i've grown a little fond of shay gentry. it almost feels like we have a personal connection, she addressing her envelopes while i sort through them days later. though i'll probably never meet her, i wish i could tell her that i admire her. i admire her determination, her diligence, her drive to win all our contests. at such a young age, i want to tell her to keep that determination she has because it'll only bring her further in whatever she decides to embark on in the future. perhaps we were all a bit like shay gentry when we were younger but a good portion of us has lost it somewhere between the days of ditching high school to sleeping through college lectures. for people like me who was once an idealistic version of shay gentry, it'd help if we were instilled with a little bit of shay gentry right now. we all could use a little shay gentry in us.
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