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(...) Before I knew it, the door opened again, everyone’s mannerisms changed and we watched Gaga’s body guards enter, with Gaga herself right behind them as she came in right next to me since I was sitting on the floor closest to the door. She had on heels that were about a foot tall and a long flowing white outfit with her vuitton brown wig. I looked up at her and said “Gaga you look so beautiful! You’re killing me!’ and she smiled back down at me and said a cute “thank you” in a sweet voice. She made her way to the center and sat in the chair, offering us all free drinks on her as she had her own cocktail prepared (cranberry vodka). We all greeted her and asked her how she was and she chatted with us casually for a bit, telling us that she was still super sick and feeling quite exhausted. She had a bad sunburn on her back that I just noticed then and told us about getting it while surfing in San Diego and how much she loved her little dog Asia. Suprisingly, I felt extremely calm and at ease talking to her in that setting as she didn’t come off as a celebrity anymore, she was just a sweet down to earth girl who genuinely wanted to talk to all of us and spend her time there. I have never encountered someone with that much power be so gracious, loving, accomadating, and excited to talk to random people she had never met before as she gave us her utmost attention at all times during the greeting. She spoke softly and kindly, always taking time to listen to what each and every person had to say with so much respect and compassion to our words. She is honestly the most caring and genuine person I had met, smiling back at each of us with excitement and talking directly to us as equals. It was so surreal to see her sitting there in front of us and looking at her just interact with us all as just another person. I did my best to take all of her personality and mannerism in, seeing her movements be so sincere and dedicated to our time. I can’t go into detail about every question asked, but she told us about what it is like to be a celebrity and losing friends to people who are greedy to her money and how much it hurts to have someone turn around and sue you after spending intimate time with them and talked a bit about how fame changes people and has changed her. She continued about Born This Way and why she wrote it and how much compassion she felt towards her fans that didn’t have equal rights to others and how she beats herself up over some things as a tourtured soul and gave us some insight on what was instore for the album ahead etc. Most people told her personal stories about themselves, and she listened to every word like a close friend, giving them her advice for the situations they asked her help in, and told others how she maintains creativity to help them with theirs. (...) A few moments later, she looked back at me, staring me back in the eye causing my dizziness to get worse and answered “Well.. I’ll tell you right now, painful memories create great songs.” and told me about her deep connections with You and I despite it being such a hard and terrible moment in her life to deal with but the end result is something empowering and loving. Gaga mentioned how painful it really was to write Bad Romance but how important that song is to her despite that and how her connections really just depend on the outcome of the song. She mentioned that since she feels so many emotions during the day, she cannot say that her music is derived from an emotional source entirely.. and so she does not feel directly passionate to songs for those reasons alone but rather feels the most connected to her works that speak most to her fans emotions rather than her own. (...) In total, we had gotten about 40 minutes chatting with her before she said excitedly “Are you guys ready for some pictures?”
Everyone stood up and exited the room as I begged the line to let me go last so I could explain my book to her. They all agreed without a single bit of hesitation as they all were so kind and beautiful to me even then at that moment so I nervously stood at the back of the line. I handed my bag to my mother and had my gifts to Asia, my book of letters, and my sign that got me back stage (to get signed) in my hands as I waited anxiously for my turn. Because Gaga had a plane to catch and was feeling sick, they rushed the line to move as quick as possible and told us we couldn’t hold her up for anything more than a picture and signature and so people were in and out of the room in less than a minute. Despite being behind 19 others, I found myself at the front of line in probably less than 8 minutes later. She met me halfway with a smile as I handed her the squeaky toy pig and flower headband for Asia to which she beamed at and said a sweet “Aww how cute! I’ll put this on her tonight! Thank you so much!” and pulled me in for a hug. She looked down at my book next and said “is this for me?” and my voice shook and broke as I tried to tell her what it was. (...) Someone in her team barely had mentioned my mother outside to someone else in the room and Gaga heard, and called out “Do you want to come in, mom?” and let her enter and talk with us for the rest of my time with her. Gaga then took my book and opened it, flipping through the pages with a huge smile, thanking me again before she said “I’ll cozy up with this and read it before I fall asleep, you’re so sweet.” Of course, my tears were flowing and it was time to take a picture now so I wrapped my hands tightly around her waist as if I was hugging her again and tried to smile through my tears as she held on to me tightly in return. She even let my mother come in with for a free extra picture and I can barely even remember looking at the camera. As we finished I told her again that I loved her so much and she looked me in the eye and said “I can see that you’re strong, and I saw that from the stage which was why I picked you to go up there; I see something in you and I can feel you in me” and continued with saying I was in her soul and appreciated all the work I put into this. I hugged her as right as I could one more time for a long moment and gave her a final I love you, knowing now in my heart that it was time for me to leave her. She grabbed my book and sat down with it on the couch behind her, thanking me again and telling me how nice it was to meet me and how she loves me. As I walked backwards to leave, refusing to turn my back to her, my last words to Gaga were “I just wanted to make you smile..” and she smiled beautifully at me one last time and said “You really did. You made my heart smile.” and the next thing I knew I was outside the door frame with one final smile and goodbye.
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Full story at http://hotbitchgaga.tumblr.com/post/...e-the-san-jose
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