A BIT ABOUT ME

The girl in the turtleneck beaming in front of her third grade class had no idea where her passion for writing would take her. She couldn't yet fathom the elation she'd feel when her work was published in an actual book for the first time. She couldn't imagine the sobs that would rack her body as she wrote an editorial piece on a devastating shooting in her city. She could never have predicted that strangers from all corners of the earth would interact with her words on some futuristic platform called "Instagram". And she definitely never dreamed her little hobby would result in her getting catapult-launched off a moving aircraft carrier in the middle of the ocean.

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On March 25th, 2005, the only thing this bright-eyed, bespectacled little girl knew for certain was that she loved to write. Especially since it got her picture in the local newspaper.