At age 13, Candy was popular for her precocious beauty, but her grades suffered because she was a daydreamer. Holding her horrible report card, she left school and strode in the direction opposite her home toward a nearby WHARF. With starry eyes toward the YONDER horizon, she pursed her petulant lips and MOUTHed a PLEDGE, "I swear by every fish in the sea that a "runaway" model is what I will be." With that, she ripped the report card into bits and fed the tatters to the wind.
