I do NOT believe in “pivoting” to a new, better version of you cuz I think that’s bullshit!

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Imho, the inner core of a Person does *NOT* change drastically!

I’m essentially the same girl as who I was when corresponding with 🇬🇧Neil Gaiman in my early 20s.

But obvi, most people weren’t born as an Old Soul nor precociously very mature like me since a kid.

I can distinctly still recall thinking it seemed like time ⏱️ had started accelerating when I was in 5th Grade!

And winning a Writing Award for 🖋️ an original story in which a girl’s best friend had an alcoholic parent, and I definitely did not know anyone with a drinking problem back then.

DEEP Thinker and NOT shallow even as an imaginative and SUPER shy & quiet child who read lots of books 📚📚 that I picked out by myself — NO Grownup influence nor interference at all!! — and watched a LOT of TV 📺 (TV series & old B&W Classic Hollywood films with zero commercials) — while doing homework.

Still recall reading Are you There God? It’s Me by Margaret by Judy Blume in 5th grade and learning about a thing called Bat Mizvah.

And loving Anastasia Krupnik books by Lois Lowry.

And having a crush on an older 6th Grader boy, an Artsy Skaterboy 🛹 With Very Nice Longer Hair and whose friend was also an artsy, cute Skaterboy 🛹!