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I am a cat owner and will always be a cat owner

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I love music. I love rock music, country music, classical music, show tunes, emo, screamo, punk, skaa, pop, indie. I love concerts. I love mosh pits. I love when the music is so loud that you can feel your heart beat with the rhythm. I love music

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My interests in all things fantasy affects my culture. I love Magic the Gathering and Dungeons and Dragons. I love fantasy novels and movies. I'm kind of a big dork about all of it.
Picture credit :Jeremy Vander Stelt

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“A poem begins as a lump in the throat, a sense of wrong, a homesickness, a lovesickness.”
― Robert Frost

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My mental illness is a large part of my personality. It affects the way I see the world and how the world sees me. Because of my disorder, I am very aware of the battles people are fighting under the surface and I actively try to be aware of the people around me and what they may be dealing with.

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Being an artist changes my perception of life. It definitely changes my perception of the world.

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Being married young is part of my culture. I know it changes how society sees me at least. People might say I'm boring (they may be right) but I am glad I was lucky enough to find my person when I was young.

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My ancestry is Irish, Welsh, and English in origin. I know that in the country I live in being white affords me privileges that many other ethnicities don't have.

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Coming from a Mormon family does affect my culture immensely. However, being raised outside of Utah I was the only Mormon in my high school and was therefore treated very differently because of it.

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I was born in Alabama and raised in Tennessee. I say y'all, most of my food is seasoned with butter and I desperately miss thunderstorms and lightning bugs.

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This is reflected in many aspects of my life. Because of my gender society treats me a certain way. I try to push back on constraints around me and my fellow women. My womanhood is something I am proud of though I recognize that it shapes societies perception of me in ways that are not always positive.