This post is submitted to Friday Fictioneers. The challenge is to write a complete story with a beginning, middle and end in 100 words or less. My story follows the picture prompt below.

A little girl in a pink pinafore dress.
Her parents dreamed of nothing less.
Years spent in fruitless quest.
It was all worth while they said when pressed.
Time zipped by at record speed.
No, she was a special breed.
She never considered any wedding vows.
She said her lines, she took her bows.
A star was to be her fate.
Now she lives behind a rusted gate.