amen! KISS was the soundtrack to my life from 7th grade all the way through high school and beyond I will always be a fan for eternity. his music saved me when i was going through a very hard time in my life. i just learned that my grandmother on my mom's side had been diagnoised with cancer, lekucmia to be exact. anyway, i was absoulutely devasted and i started listening to Kiss and i was hooked for life and i knew things were going to be okay. their music saved me again when i was 17 and had fractured my right foot by taking out the garbage and had to be rushed to the hospital and had to be put under, i had a long and hard recovery ahead of me, but the more i listened to their music, it made me want to work harder at my recovery time. Their music also helped me when i was having a tough winter trimester of my senior year in high school. i couldn't wait to get out. On sunday march 22nd, 2009, my grandmother lost her vicious fight with cancer. my family and i were absolutely devasted. i spoke at her funeral and promised to remain a shopaholic in her memory. The music of KISS and ace frehley helped me a lot that horrible week. a month later i met my best friend and fellow KISS/frehley sister kelly, she loves ace frehley and KISS just as much as i do. Their music also helped me celebrate birthdays, holidays, anniversaries, my graduation from high school in 2008. Their music also helped me when somebody i went to middle and high school with stabbed me in the back one too many times, his name was branden day. he made my life in high school a living hell. one day in july of 2009, i was talking to kelly, and he interruppted my chat with kelly and needless to say, he was a major pain in my a**. he did not come to my grandmother's wake or her funeral, he did not send a sympathy card, flowers, or call me to say he was sorry to hear about the passing of my grandmother. he also wasn't there for me when my dog joxer had to be put to sleep. he basically treated me like dog shit during the last 3 years of my high school career and around the time of my grandmother's passing. i was friends with him from 6th grade to high school graduation. it all started towards the end of my sophmore year of high school, he bothered me with the prom/winter formal talk, and it really annoyed me to no end this prom/winter formal battle went on through my junior and senior year of high school. i poured my heart and soul into that friendship and he didn't pull a single inch of his share during that friendship i was pissed big time and it broke my heart but i knew what i had to do for the sake of my well-being. i kicked that sorry a**hole to the curb and told him if he ever comes near me or my family again, i wil kick his sorry a** . the music of KISS opened my eyes and made me see that i didn't deserve that kind of treatment at all. i deserved so much better. i told him to stay away from me and my family or else. it got to be so bad that i had to change my last name on facebook, myspace, and twitter to frehley. the music of KISS made me want to work a little bit harder, made me all the more wiser, smarter in my choices in my life, toughter, and stronger, made me learned a little bit faster, and made my skin a little bit thicker. like me, KISS had their share of tough times too, but they always managed to come out on top in the end. i love a majority of their songs, but beth and reason to live are my top 2 favorites. if i had to pick a song to dance to, i would pick reason to live because i can relate to the lyrics and it's saying what does not kill you, it will only make you stronger. Thank you KISS for the awesome music and i would not be the fabulous girl that i am today. Thank you from the bottom of my heart
xoxo, your biggest #1 fan for life, jessica
