Heather McGee

She actually gave me a great education being homeschooled.

However, she also knew I wanted to go to college.

And to go to college, when you have a million kids, you don't have a lot of money.

I needed scholarships.

And if I was going to get a scholarship, I needed to go to a traditional school.

So when I turned 14, my mom enrolled me in a regular high school.

This was terrifying to me.

Going to the lunchroom and figuring out where to sit was the most horrifying thing to me every day.

I spent the entirety of my high school experience being scared to be seen or heard or have to interact with anyone while getting an A-plus in every class.

So anyway, when we got to my senior year, I found out we were taking a senior trip to Spain for 10 days.

And to someone who had only been to the Super Walmart in my tiny town, this was both thrilling and really overwhelming.

I also didn't have a suitcase.

And I didn't know how I was going to get that suitcase because we didn't have the money to get a suitcase.

So I was really worried about this.

And I brought it up to my granny.

Now, my granny was not a part of our fundamentalist religious community.

She was the opposite.

She wore Betty Boop sweatshirts.

She wore cheetah print.

She wore a t-shirt that said, I'm sexy.