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  • Displaying my art in a show and selling a piece.
  • Walking across the stage to receive my diploma at my high school graduation.
  • Giving a very old woman a ride home when she had been walking in the hot sun for a long time and how thankful she was.
  • Getting a photograph that I took published in a magazine.
  • Any time that I admitted I was wrong and apologized.
  • Surviving a terrible broken heart.
  • Becoming more open-minded and accepting of others' lifestyles after high school.
  • Getting my first tattoo as a part of a healing/closure process.
  • Overcoming a serious eating disorder and actually being pretty darn happy with my body.
  • Getting rid of my anger problems to the point now that it's incredibly difficult to anger me at all.
  • Learning to say "I love you." to my parents again after going my entire adolescence without ever saying it.
  • Forgiving my father for cheating on my mother and divorcing her after nearly 30 years.
  • Completing a wonderful internship at the Virginia Holocaust Museum, learning alot about myself, life and people who are very different from me in the process.
  • Graduating from Virginia Commonwealth University with my BS in Anthropology.
  • Taking my first trapeze class and catching my first trick.
  • My first paid photography gig.
  • Watching my sister walk down the aisle, beaming and looking absolutely stunning, to marry the man of her dreams.
  • Completing my first half-marathon.
  • Getting my first big promotion.
oct 23 2008 ∞
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