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One well-meaning but clearly off-her-rocker Texas mom has spent at least $1500 on newspaper ads, fliers, one of those customizable outdoor display signs at a local taqueria, and — the pièce de résistance — a "pink rotating outdoor" billboard advertising her daughter, Brandy Day, for prom queen.
Most of us ignore those skeevy ads in the back of magazines that promise readers mass amounts of weight loss, ecstatic sex, and bountiful heads of hair in exchange for a few bucks plus shipping and handling. But at least one ad deserves our full attention.