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Mom Prom Nashua 2013 to be held Saturday in Hollis

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Ask a woman of a certain age who her perfect prom date would have been, and one of the names that’s sure to come up is Johnny Castle, Patrick Swayze’s character from the 1987 hit “Dirty Dancing.” The pictures in your high school yearbook may show you dancing the night away with an awkward young man in a ruffled tuxedo shirt, but you can snap that fantasy photo with Johnny as your prom date at Mom Prom Nashua 2013 at 7 p.m. Saturday, April 20, at the Alpine Grove Banquet Facility, 19 S. Depot Road, Hollis. “We have cardboard cutout men that you can pose with for prom pictures,” Prom Committee member Katie Long said. One of these cutouts features Johnny from “Dirty Dancing,” with his arms wrapped around Baby, Jennifer Grey’s character, in their trademark embrace. Baby’s head has been removed to allow promgoers to put their face in her place for the ultimate photo op. Fabio’s cardboard counterpart also will be available to pose for pictures, as will a few others who are surprises, Long said. Since the first Mom Prom Nashua in 2011, local women have donned their old prom dresses – the tackier, the better – for an annual evening of fun, frivolity and philanthropy. The spark for Mom Prom was kindled in 2005, when Long’s sister, Betsy Crapps, of Canton, Mich., decided to wear one of her old prom dresses to her friend’s Oscar viewing party. “All the girls thought it was hysterical,” Long said. Crapps and her friends decided they would all wear their old dresses and go out for dinner and dancing, an impromptu evening out that led to the creation of the first Mom Prom to raise money for charity in 2006. Despite the title of the event, you don’t have to be a mother to attend. “The original group of girls that did a lot of this was actually her mom’s group through her church,” Long said; hence, the name. Also, the name has a nice rhyming quality to it. “Girls Prom doesn’t have the same ring as Mom Prom,” Long said. For the first year, proceeds from Mom Prom Nashua were donated to Susan G.

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