Every now and then around the holidays, we hear a miraculous story of such profound goodness and virtue that it manages to warm even the cold, cold heart of a joy-loathing Grinch such as myself. And this year, my icy cynicism was melted by some lady named Priscilla Ceballos and her six year-old daughter, who collaborated to win Hannah Montana concert tickets by fabricating an essay about the child’s father, claiming he was a soldier killed in Iraq. So pour a nice cup of hot cocoa and let this tale of American Beauty reaffirm your faith in fellow humanity:
An essay that won a six-year-old girl tickets to a Hannah Montana concert has been exposed as a fake.The essay began with the line: “My daddy died this year in Iraq”.
A spokeswoman for the contest’s sponsor said the girl’s mother told company officials her daughter’s father died in a roadside bombing in Iraq on 17 April. The spokeswoman said Priscilla Ceballos had now admitted it was not true.
So to recap, an adult person, charged with the care of another human life, LIED about her child’s father dying in a war that’s already claimed the lives of thousands of US soliders, all so they could win tickets to see the “Boot Scootin’ Boogie” guy’s teenage Disney daugher sing in concert. JOOOOOY TO THE WORLD!
