Borderline Normal
By Molly-Ann Leikin

        During a recent, routine physical, my doctor pronounced me “borderline normal”.   

        Really? Bring it on.    

        Early in my squashed, Canadian struggle to write and sing, I heard nothing but “don’t be so sensitive”, and felt as though someone had drawn a red line right through my dreams, because I just couldn’t connect with the should’s of life in Hadassah Heights.   

        Somewhere along the Jacques Cartier Bridge to New York, I dumped the whole contaminated mess into a snow bank, and declared myself a songwriter who wasn’t going to try to fit in anywhere but my own heart.   

        I’ve been borderline normal ever since, and celebrate my eccentricities.    
        I hope you are enjoying yours, too. That’s where our songs come from.    

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