Janie's Got a Gun

I really enjoyed reading about the many lives of this incredibly awkward girl. It was interesting to see how many of you wrote about her being a single mom, or a pregnant single mom. And then there were several people who called her "bighearted." Many of these thoughts never came to my head as I was looking at the picture. So I thought I would share some choice sentences or stories from your responses, just to give you an idea of what others were thinking.

Kathy Nicole Harrison "Today I walked into a small supermarket, slowly lifted my arm, and pointed my black pistol at one of the cashiers, demanding watermelons. He began to panic, raising both of his arms in the air. I smiled, stepped closer towards the man, and aimed the gun at his temple. Then he asked me, 'With or without seeds?'"

Betsy Merdosh "While I was driving to the market in my 1987 Ford F-150 I came upon two men having a dispute in the middle of the road. So being the bighearted woman that I am I took the one man's gun and made sure that they would not be getting up for awhile."

Ana Jacobs "The watermelon describes me because I am a nice and sweet person. Many people like who I am and can always be around me. I have a big heart full of love and care for just about everyone."

Tammy "Today was the BIG! day, my photoshoot with Marc. When I got there I was all ready for a big high fashion shoot. But let's just say Marc had other ideas in mind. He put me in a frumpy old dress with flowers all over it (you know how much I hate flower dresses), pulled my hair back, and to top it all off gave me a watermelon and a gun to hold. Crazy right?!"

Amanda "She's a lonely mother; with no husband. She's been divorced twice. So in this picture she has the watermelon for her kids as some sort of food, and she has the gun because she hates her life, and wanna end it. She's having a hard time choosing between the gun, and watermelon. So she's just standing there with both of the options in her head, and she's hoping that someone would tell her the right answer."

Betty "Although Betty's life may seem perfect, it's far from it. There is a lot of domestic violence in Betty and Heath's household. Contrary to the typical male-abusing-his-wife, Betty hits on Heath... Betty beats on Heath for various reasons such as: Not cooking dinner on time, not cleaning the house, and not helping the kids with their homework. Heath even gets abused when he doesn't have sex with Betty when she wants."

Bethany Melon "I found my dress in a dumpster behind a funeral home."