Hi I’m Lauren and this is My Bieber Experience! I met Justin on October 18 th 2012 in Winnipeg . I didn’t get tickets to his concert when they went on sale and neither did my best friend Katie and we were really disappointed. It was getting closer to the concert and I knew how much it would mean to both of us to even go to the concert, so and I started entering every contest I could find to win tickets or meet & greets. I didn’t care as long as I got to go to the concert. I think I entered at least 10 contests when I found this one on a radio station for 4 meet & greets and my mom happened to be a member of this stations website and she had over 100 thousand points! The contest cost 500 points to enter each time so I entered it 50 times. I was desperate. About a week later it was the contest deadline and I hadn’t gotten any calls or emails so I just assumed I didn’t win. The next day I came home from school and my mom played me a message on our answering machine from the radio station saying I had been picked as one of the 80 finalists in the contest and I was invited to a small movie theatre where they would play Never Say Never and do the draw for the meet & greets after the movie. I was so excited! I knew it was still a very small chance I’d win (1 in 80) but it was worth a shot. It was the day of the contest I was so excited all day, I literally couldn’t sit still. When we got there we were seated and they played Never Say Never. After the movie they did a reverse draw where everyone stood up and if they pulled your name you were eliminated. It was the most stressful thing I’ve ever gone through. It got down to the final 10 and I was still in it and I started thinking like, I could actually win this. FINALLY it got to the final 2 and it was me and my cousin and this other girl and her mom (my cousin’s name was in the draw because it had to be an adult). We got to go up on the stage and they changed the rules, so that if they did pull your name, you were the winner. Sure enough they pulled Ashley (my cousin’s name) and I broke down crying. I fell to the ground. I had never been so happy in my life. I even got to do a radio interview! 3 days later it was finally the day of the concert! We even made Justin a Build-a-bear with a Winnipeg Jets shirt. We got to the MTS Centre and got our wristbands and started waiting in line. While we were waiting in line we saw Kenny and we started screaming and crying and he just laughed and waved at us . The line started moving up and we got up to the security guards. We had to give the teddy bear to them and I was telling the security guard to make sure Justin got the bear and stuff but I didn’t realize we were standing right in front of the curtain Justin was behind. Then all of a sudden the curtain opened and there he was! I didn’t even realize it was him at first, I thought it was a cardboard cutout or something and I just stared at him. He was like, “Hey come on in!” I was the first one in and I was trying so hard not to cry. All I managed to say was, “Can I hug you?” and Justin was so sweet he said “Of course!” and gave me a big hug and I just held onto him while he said hi to everyone else. I just remember staring up at him and looking at his huge diamond earrings. Then the photographer told me to turn for the picture so I did, they took the picture and before I knew it the security guards were pushing us out but I wasn’t done! I looked at Justin and started balling my eyes out crying saying everything I could think of (I don’t think he even really understood me) and he just smiled, and looked me right in the eye, put his hand on my shoulder and said, “It’s okay sweetheart don’t cry!” and then hugged me. I was crying into his shirt, hugging him. Then the security guard started pulling me away and I yelled, “I love you so much Justin” as we were leaving and he said “I love you too.” I was still balling my eyes out walking around the arena, I couldn’t stop (people were staring) LOL. I don’t think I stopped crying the entire night because the concert was SO incredible. It was seriously the best day of my life and if you’re reading this please DO NOT give up because if you NEVER SAY NEVER and BELIEVE, you will meet Justin and your dreams WILL come true. I can promise you that. Justin if you read this I want you to know how much I love you and how much you’ve changed my life I don’t know where I’d be without you. Lauren -@lauren_young15/@BieberWinnipeg Video of me winning the contest HERE Continued here: Hi I’m Lauren and this is My Bieber Experience! I met Justin on…
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