This One’s For All You Young Dreamers
If you flip through my fifth-grade yearbook, prepare to find something highly embarrassing and undeniably amusing on the 36th page. I’m not speaking about the goofy headshot of me in pigtails (although that comes in a close second), but rather, the short description I give of my future goals. When 10-year-old Ibanca was asked the question “what do you want to be when you are older?” her answer was slightly…ambitious. “Lawyer, author, and astronaut.” Let’s take a moment to emphasize the AND. Not even a modest “or.” Back when I was a starry-eyed elementary-schooler, there was nothing unusual about...
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