Let's talk about accents and dialects.

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And my current relationship is in part indirectly due to my accent.

I worked with kids a lot and as a result got exposed to Hannah Montana, though I didn't pay her much attention for a long while. And then I caught an episode (coming in a few minutes into the show) where she (with her Southern accent) is given a really hard time by a couple of snooty Californians. I sympathized with her so much (and it was pretty funny) that I started watching the show and at first thought it was cute and working with kids it would be useful to know. And then I got to like it for multiple reasons.

So then when the Hannah movie came out in 2009 and I needed extra money I found a way to make money to take girls to see it so their parents and grandparents could get a break from having to see it over and over again, and I made a lot. And my current partner paid me to take her daughter (she can't stand Disney, including Hannah Montana, and loved the term "Disneytard" after I let her know about the word...never would've taught that word to her if I knew she was going to take up using it...). As a result her daughter got to like me, and her mom put my number on her phone. So when the mom got sick and the girl got desperate she started calling people and after that didn't work she found my number on her mom's phone and called me and that eventually led to us becoming partners...and a family for all practical purposes (save in name).

All because I caught the ep of Miley/Hannah getting a hard time for speaking with a Southern accent in California. Talk about the butterfly effect.