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Article: Kelly Clarkson's `Moment' makes her the `American Idol'.(Zap2it)
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- Knight Ridder/Tribune News Service
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- September 30, 2002
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LOS ANGELES _ Before auditioning for "American Idol," Kelly Clarkson worked as many as three jobs at once. She liked to stay busy, she said, because otherwise she would "get mopey."
After Wednesday night, however, "I don't see mopey in my future."
Clarkson, a 20-year-old from Burleson, Texas, will be a very busy woman indeed, what with her new recording career and all.
She was the overwhelming winner of "American Idol," capturing 58 percent of the more than 15.5 million phone votes cast after she and runner-up Justin Guarini performed their final songs of the competition Tuesday.
Her first single, "A Moment Like This," which she sung ...