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![Udale Moore said he selected to sing Jason Michael Carroll's "Livin' Our Love Song" because the lyrics hit so close to home. Moore met his wife, Wendy, at Brandon Skateland on April 28, 1990. She was 14; he was 17. At age 15, she became pregnant.
"Our parents said you're not getting married, you're not living together, but you can see each other as much as you want," Udale Moore said. So for three years Wendy Moore, who during her pregnancy made the honor roll at Bloomingdale High School, and Udale Moore, who graduated from Brandon High, continued their relationship under their parents' watchful eyes.
Wendy Moore graduated from Bloomingdale in 1993 and in October of that year she and Udale became man and wife. Their first child, Kevin, turned 19 in 2010. Their second child, Kyle, 15, was born in 1995, three years before Wendy Moore was diagnosed with multiple sclerosis, a disease that in July 2008 put her on life support.
"She doesn't get down and out and she never said, 'I want out of this world,' " Udale Moore said. "She keeps me sane by the things she does."
As for the song he selected to sing, the song that earned him second place in the 2010 Brandon Idol contest, Udale Moore said, "We truly are living our love song." As teen parents "people said it would never work out," he added. "We had to prove them wrong."
Lyrics To "Livin' Our Love Song"
"Baby when I look at you with your hair fallin' down in your baby blues
Standing there across the room I get so lost in the way you move
It makes me reminisce back 10 years ago on a night like this
Teary eyed as you took my hand and I told you that I'd be your man
So many things have come so many things have gone
One thing that's stayed the same is our love's still growing strong."
[Chorus]
"Baby just look at us all this time and we're still in love
Something like this just don't exist
Between a backwoods boy and a fairy tale princess
People said it would never work out
Living our dreams and shattered all doubts
It feels good to prove 'em wrong."](http://www.mypapernow.com/Other/Momentum-Festival-Brandon-Idol/i-p8DdjzT/0/Ti/DSC_1409-Ti.jpg "Udale Moore said he selected to sing Jason Michael Carroll's \"Livin' Our Love Song\" because the lyrics hit so close to home. Moore met his wife, Wendy, at Brandon Skateland on April 28, 1990. She was 14; he was 17. At age 15, she became pregnant.
\"Our parents said you're not getting married, you're not living together, but you can see each other as much as you want,\" Udale Moore said. So for three years Wendy Moore, who during her pregnancy made the honor roll at Bloomingdale High School, and Udale Moore, who graduated from Brandon High, continued their relationship under their parents' watchful eyes.
Wendy Moore graduated from Bloomingdale in 1993 and in October of that year she and Udale became man and wife. Their first child, Kevin, turned 19 in 2010. Their second child, Kyle, 15, was born in 1995, three years before Wendy Moore was diagnosed with multiple sclerosis, a disease that in July 2008 put her on life support.
\"She doesn't get down and out and she never said, 'I want out of this world,' \" Udale Moore said. \"She keeps me sane by the things she does.\"
As for the song he selected to sing, the song that earned him second place in the 2010 Brandon Idol contest, Udale Moore said, \"We truly are living our love song.\" As teen parents \"people said it would never work out,\" he added. \"We had to prove them wrong.\"
Lyrics To \"Livin' Our Love Song\"
\"Baby when I look at you with your hair fallin' down in your baby blues
Standing there across the room I get so lost in the way you move
It makes me reminisce back 10 years ago on a night like this
Teary eyed as you took my hand and I told you that I'd be your man
So many things have come so many things have gone
One thing that's stayed the same is our love's still growing strong.\"
[Chorus]
\"Baby just look at us all this time and we're still in love
Something like this just don't exist
Between a backwoods boy and a fairy tale princess
People said it would never work out
Living our dreams and shattered all doubts
It feels good to prove 'em wrong.\"")
![George T. May IV, standing at left, is the 2009-10 president of the Community Roundtable, an umbrella organization for area nonprofits, which each year in June oversees the charity race for honorary mayor of Brandon. He said he is encouraged to see how the Brandon Idol competition, launched in 2001 as a mayoral race fundraiser for Arlene Waldron, "has spun off and become its own entity."
"My vision as president [of the Community Roundtable] is to continue doing just that," paving the way "for other nonprofits to get to that level" of fundraising success, May said. All that's necessary, May added, "is energy and effort."
Proceeds raised by both the Brandon Idol teen and adult competitions were funneled through the Roundtable for distribution to Rotary's Camp Florida in Brandon, an 18-acre campground for children with medical, physical, mental and emotional illnesses and challenges.](http://www.mypapernow.com/Other/Momentum-Festival-Brandon-Idol/i-QX5jmgm/0/Ti/DSC_1381-Ti.jpg "George T. May IV, standing at left, is the 2009-10 president of the Community Roundtable, an umbrella organization for area nonprofits, which each year in June oversees the charity race for honorary mayor of Brandon. He said he is encouraged to see how the Brandon Idol competition, launched in 2001 as a mayoral race fundraiser for Arlene Waldron, \"has spun off and become its own entity.\"
\"My vision as president [of the Community Roundtable] is to continue doing just that,\" paving the way \"for other nonprofits to get to that level\" of fundraising success, May said. All that's necessary, May added, \"is energy and effort.\"
Proceeds raised by both the Brandon Idol teen and adult competitions were funneled through the Roundtable for distribution to Rotary's Camp Florida in Brandon, an 18-acre campground for children with medical, physical, mental and emotional illnesses and challenges.")
Udale Moore said every week he gives his wife fresh flowers and that for the week of the 2010 Brandon Idol contest he wanted to give her those flowers from the Brandon Elks Lodge stage.
The April 24 competition was a special day for Udale Moore and his wife, Wendy, who reacted with surprise and delight. She was diagnosed with multiple sclerosis in 1998, three years after giving birth to the Moore's second of two children, Kyle, 15. Their first child, Kevin, 19, was born when the two were teenagers; she a student at Bloomingdale High and he a recent graduate of Brandon High. The Brandon Idol contest marked the first time in eight years Wendy Moore was well enough to leave their home to see her husband perform on stage.
Udale Moore said he religiously gives his wife flowers because "she takes care of me and I love her very much." Moore acknowledged that people will ask him, "How can she take care of you, she can't even move?" But, Moore answered, "she smiles at me and she tells me that she loves me and she's always taking my mind off of bad things."
"She keeps me sane by the things she does," added Moore, who noted that even when his wife was on life support in 2008, she would squeeze his hand and acknowledge her love for him. "So many ups and downs and obstacles and she makes it all really worthwhile."
(For more of this story, click forward to the next News-Shot posting.)
The April 24 competition was a special day for Udale Moore and his wife, Wendy, who reacted with surprise and delight. She was diagnosed with multiple sclerosis in 1998, three years after giving birth to the Moore's second of two children, Kyle, 15. Their first child, Kevin, 19, was born when the two were teenagers; she a student at Bloomingdale High and he a recent graduate of Brandon High. The Brandon Idol contest marked the first time in eight years Wendy Moore was well enough to leave their home to see her husband perform on stage.
Udale Moore said he religiously gives his wife flowers because "she takes care of me and I love her very much." Moore acknowledged that people will ask him, "How can she take care of you, she can't even move?" But, Moore answered, "she smiles at me and she tells me that she loves me and she's always taking my mind off of bad things."
"She keeps me sane by the things she does," added Moore, who noted that even when his wife was on life support in 2008, she would squeeze his hand and acknowledge her love for him. "So many ups and downs and obstacles and she makes it all really worthwhile."
(For more of this story, click forward to the next News-Shot posting.)
Udale Moore said every week he gives his wife fresh flowers and that for the week of the 2010 Brandon Idol contest he wanted to give her those flowers from the Brandon Elks Lodge stage.
The April 24 competition was a special day for Udale Moore and his wife, Wendy, who reacted with surprise and delight. She was diagnosed with multiple sclerosis in 1998, three years after giving birth to the Moore's second of two children, Kyle, 15. Their first child, Kevin, 19, was born when the two were teenagers; she a student at Bloomingdale High and he a recent graduate of Brandon High. The Brandon Idol contest marked the first time in eight years Wendy Moore was well enough to leave their home to see her husband perform on stage.
Udale Moore said he religiously gives his wife flowers because "she takes care of me and I love her very much." Moore acknowledged that people will ask him, "How can she take care of you, she can't even move?" But, Moore answered, "she smiles at me and she tells me that she loves me and she's always taking my mind off of bad things."
"She keeps me sane by the things she does," added Moore, who noted that even when his wife was on life support in 2008, she would squeeze his hand and acknowledge her love for him. "So many ups and downs and obstacles and she makes it all really worthwhile."
(For more of this story, click forward to the next News-Shot posting.)
The April 24 competition was a special day for Udale Moore and his wife, Wendy, who reacted with surprise and delight. She was diagnosed with multiple sclerosis in 1998, three years after giving birth to the Moore's second of two children, Kyle, 15. Their first child, Kevin, 19, was born when the two were teenagers; she a student at Bloomingdale High and he a recent graduate of Brandon High. The Brandon Idol contest marked the first time in eight years Wendy Moore was well enough to leave their home to see her husband perform on stage.
Udale Moore said he religiously gives his wife flowers because "she takes care of me and I love her very much." Moore acknowledged that people will ask him, "How can she take care of you, she can't even move?" But, Moore answered, "she smiles at me and she tells me that she loves me and she's always taking my mind off of bad things."
"She keeps me sane by the things she does," added Moore, who noted that even when his wife was on life support in 2008, she would squeeze his hand and acknowledge her love for him. "So many ups and downs and obstacles and she makes it all really worthwhile."
(For more of this story, click forward to the next News-Shot posting.)
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