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I want to be a nature, fashion, portrait, and movie photographer. I want to be a cinematographer, a screenwriter, a set designer, a producer, a film maker. I want to be both teacher and student --of everything. I want to be an artist, a realist, a philosopher, and activist. I want to be a journalist, a short story writer, a novelist. I want to be a traveler, a tourist. I want to be a singer, song-writer, a musician, guitarist, pianist. An entertainer. I want to be a detective, a lawyer, a fighter, a lover, a mother, a daughter, a child, a sister, an aunt, a neighbor, a shoulder, a friend. I want to be me. Whoever that is.

(June 10, 2008)