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Dear Katy, (& admins 🙋)

I’m new to Katycats.com so I’m not sure if this feed is where I’m supposed to write to you but here goes nothing!! Hi, I’m Moriah and I’m The Kentucky Katycat also known as @KatherynPatra on Twitter 🤗. I have loved everything you’ve done since the very first time I heard you sing. I was crossing the Florida state line with my GF as the sun was rising. We were moving to Florida to live on the beach in Sarasota for the summer! “I Kissed A Girl” came on and I lost it. I was obsessed. I woke up my GF and made her hear you too and that was the song of our summer. Everything about you made me smile. You made me feel okay to kiss my GF and I definitely did lol. (You’ve made my nephew feel like it was okay for boys to wear makeup when he lives in rural Kentucky🙌🌈💄.) Fast-forward to your California Dreams Tour.. I was in the Air Force as a Combat Weather Forecaster for pilots in Iraq and Afghanistan. I missed the tour and it broke my heart. I’m not sure I knew what a Katycat was yet but I’m pretty sure I was one after I went through the same kind of heartbreak as you and got out of the military. I felt very lost and your music saved me. When I was 8 my parents died from murder-suicide. My dad was in Vietnam and suffered badly from PTSD and Paranoid Schizophrenia. I listened to my momma scream for me as she died and it’s a sound that good music has helped soothe over the last 20 years. As an adult in my 20s, I have experienced an absence of normalcy. No parents or grandparents to guide my way. I follow my heart and what I feel is right. Fast-forward again to 2012, I became a civilian again when A Part Of Me 3D came out and my best friend and I went to California for the very first time. A dream come true for me to meet my Cali family in Long Beach and see the West Coast. We went to see your movie at the ArcLight Cinema in Hollywood and it changed my life. Katy, you made me feel like it was okay to FEEL. Okay to CRY. Okay to be ME. She made me feel okay to be awkward and silly. She makes me feel powerful now. She has healed my wounds and chased away demons that haunt my memories with her music. I listen to “Wide Awake” when I need to remember that change is okay. I listen to “Part Of Me” when I need strength. “By The Grace Of God” speaks so many volumes to me. I have been suicidal during my life from abuse, loss, and pain. Katy always tells a story I want to hear in her songs. She sees me through life even without ever meeting her. I went to PWT 3 times and she held my hand and sang to me in Louisville in the Reflection Section. I cried. I’ll never forget it. I drove 9 hours to Philly from Kentucky to see her perform with Hillary last October. I made to all the way to outside her her room afterward because I told security I was a Katycat but she wasn’t seeing anyone that night 😔. I was still so grateful for the free show. The election broke my heart too. I went to the Women’s March in Washington with my cousins on January 21! It was amazing to know we were there together. I’ve been so close to so many times and I would truly give anything to meet her finally after 9 years of loving her for the Katheryn Hudson I saw in her movie…and for the beautiful and amazing Katy Perry that she is on stage. I’m coming to the Louisville Witness: The Tour show on October 16. I bought tickets to bring my niece (19) and nephew (17) and we will all be in the drop zone together! I bought a $753 ticket to be in the VIP Drop Zone for Columbus but the show was moved and I was in Germany for work so I had to cancel and refund. But it all worked out and now I can bring my niece and nephew! I hope to be able to make it to the Indiana show in December but for now this is all I have since I bought them their tickets too. I just have this 1 ticket to see the Queen Katheryn Patra!! Please meet me Katy! You will make MY childhood dreams come true!! I love you so much! Thank you all for your considerations. 😘💕🌻