: a amazing fantastic special unique sisterhood As funny as it sounds, I remember really wanting to work at Brandy Melville for some reason. I shopped there a lot as a teenager, and in my hometown, everyone believed that if you worked there or at PacSun, you were considered super popular and cool. Naturally, all the popular girls from my hometown who went off to college in Orange County, LA, San Diego, or any other major city with a Brandy ended up working there, which someh

— The Gift from my mother For the past few months, I have been working on setting up this blog and curating it to perfection. I wanted it to represent so much of who I am—something deep, but not too personal; a space where I could express different sides of myself without oversharing. There was a point when I considered scrapping the idea entirely because I felt overwhelmed. I wanted too much from something that was supposed to be an authentic reflection of myself. Then, one