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On August 10th, 2013 I met Justin Bieber. It was an amazing experience, even though it took a long time to happen. It took me 4 1/2 years to meet him, but it happened. He always says to believe and to never say never and that's what I did.

I became of fan of Justin in 2009 when I found him on YouTube. I immediately was intrigued by his voice and how cute he was. I became obsessed with him and his music. On June 6th 2010 he followed me on twitter. I thought it was the coolest thing ever. In August 2010 I saw Justin for the first time on the My World Tour in Nashville. In November 2010 I saw Justin for the second time.

When his 3rd Album came out in 2012 and the Believe Tour came out I was determined to get meet and greet tickets. I saved up for months but when I tried to get the tickets they sold out with in a minute. I started looking for other way to get tickets, but everything was too expensive.

Later that month, my friend Airel introduced me to a girl named Elizabeth. We soon became best friends. She was also a fan of Justin. She was blind. She told me about how she was born legally blind, but when she was 3 she started pointing out colors and shapes. When she was 15 her retina detached. It was around the time that she had found Justin. She told me that his music and videos on YouTube got her through all the surgery's that had around that time.

After all the things Elizabeth told me I wasn't as sad about seeing or meeting Justin. To me she deserved it more. She had tickets for Alabama, but not meet and greets. So I started helping her try to get them. I emailed Justin's manager and spammed his crews twitter, but nothing worked.

At Christmas 2012 my mom surprised me with Justin tickets. They weren't the best seats, but they weren't the worst. I wasn't complaining I was glad I got to go. On January 16th, 2013 Elizabeth saw Justin for the second time and two days later I saw him. Elizabeth explained to me that even though her seats had been on the floor she couldn't see him because it was dark and she can only really see about 5 feet in front of her. I decided then that I would continue to try to help her meet Justin.

In February 2013 Elizabeth bought tickets for the second leg of the tour in Atlanta. She decided that she would take me with her due to how much I had tried to help her. The tickets weren't meet and greets but we would be there. They were on the first row on the side, but she wouldn't be able to see from there.

In June 2013, two months before the concert, we started getting excited. We tried so hard to get the word out about Elizabeth, but all we seemed to do was get twitters suspended. One day Elizabeth texted me saying she found meet and greets on a website and the prices were going down. In July her grandpa bought them for her. Not only were they meet and greets, but 3rd row tickets, and I was going.

When August 9th, 2013 rolled around I could hardly contain my excitement. I had to go to school that day, and it was hard. All I could think all day was that it was actually going to happen. I was going to Atlanta to meet Justin.

Atlanta was a very significant place. Not only was it the last show of the tour, but Atlanta is where it all started. Atlanta is where Justin's manager found him on YouTube. Atlanta was the place that Justin went to the first time he flew in an airplane. Atlanta was where his first song was recorded. Atlanta was where his first radio interview was. Atlanta is where he met Usher and Scooter for the first time. Atlanta was where he was signed. I was beyond excited.

I couldn't sleep that night in the hotel. I was so nervous that the tickets wouldn't be real. I also new that Justin was really close to us. He had been at the aquarium and a restaurant super close to us.

When we woke up the next morning we went down to the arena. It was about 10 o'clock. I honestly don't know why the two of us felt obligated to drag our parents to an arena all in day in Georgia in August but we did. As we walked down to the arena Justin's bus drove past us. I knew it was his bus. It honked at us and we both started freaking out. We were the only people around and we were wearing our Bieber shirts.

We waited outside all day. We got to see some of the crew and Cody Simpson. At 4 o'clock we were let into the building. The guy in charge of the meet and greets, Ryan, wouldn't let Elizabeth's mom go back with us, but he said he would watch out for us. We had to sit in this VIP room for like two hours. It was horrible. We just listened to Justin songs and they gave us food, for two hours.

Then we were walked backstage. Our group was the first to meet him since we had VIP and hadn't won our tickets. We walked into a basket ball court that had tent in the corner. We stood in line for a minute before it started moving. While in line we met his manager, guitar player, and body guard.

After what felt like forever we were next in line. Ryan saw us and came over and smiled at us. "Are you ready," he asked us. We just nodded. I saw him whisper something to one of the security people, who whispered something to another one, who whispered it to Justin. I'm pretty sure he said Elizabeth was blind. Justin walked to us and pulled Elizabeth over to the wall where they had hung up the believe sign. She got to say something and hug him before the security pulled her away.

Then it was my turn. I walked up to him and told him I loved him. He said "I love you too," before taking the picture. Afterwards I hugged him and thanked him. I also told him he should smiled more. I'm not really why I told him after the picture, but I did. He told me thank you before I walked to Elizabeth. Right before the next person walked in, he told the security to hold on and then pointed to me. So I turned back around to look at him. He smiled and said thank you again and then nodded towards Elizabeth. He was thanking me for taking her backstage.

I was so excited as we went to our seats. Elizabeth started crying, as well as the two girls we had been talking to behind us in line. It was pretty amazing. I didn't think it would happen, but it did. Justin not only told me to never say never and believe, he also showed me.