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Running in Heels
"I walked a thousand miles while everyone was asleep..."
Created on 2004-09-22 00:15:49 (#4611019), last updated 2009-04-02
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Basic Info| Name: | Bex |
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| Birthdate: | 1984-01-09 |
| Location: | Brooklyn, New York, United States |
Bio“…quite simply, I was in love with New York. I do not mean 'love' in any colloquial way, I mean that I was in love with the city the way you love the first person that ever touches you and never love anyone quite that way again. I remember walking across Sixty-second Street one twilight that first spring, or the second spring, they were all alike for a while. I was late to meet someone but I stopped at Lexington Avenue and bought a peach and stood on the corner eating it and knew that I had come out of the West and reached the mirage. I could taste the peach and feel the soft air blowing from a subway grating on my legs and I could smell lilac and garbage and expensive perfume and I knew that it would cost something sooner or later -- because I did not belong there, did not come from there -- but when you are twenty-two or twenty-three, you figure that later you will have a high emotional balance, and be able to pay whatever it costs. I still believed in possibilities then, still had the sense, so peculiar to New York, that something extraordinary would happen any minute, any day, any month.” -- Joan Didion, "Goodbye to All That"
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accessorization, adjectives, aesthetics, amazon as a verb, america's next top model, animal print, animal rights, astronomy, autumn, baba ghanouj, baked goods, ballet flats, bay ridge, being mistaken for southern, biking, books, brooklyn, caffeine, cardio, cleaning, coffee, commas, cornwall, country music, cowboy boots, crap and some stuff, crazy pills, daydreaming, diet soda, dogs, eccentricity, escapist fiction, exploring foreign lands, extroversion, family, fashion, fiction, fitness, francesca lia block, gilmore girls, gossip, gothic romance, grammar, greece, green, haruki murakami, hating on tourists, hitchcock, hummus, hysteria, imperfection, impressionist art, indie rock, intuitive eating, jamaica kincaid, jane eyre, joan didion, koala bears, laughter, lauren slater, libraries, literature, london, lorrie moore, lost, mary gaitskill, mental illness, modernism, neatness, new york city, obsession, organization, oversized sunglasses, pablo neruda, pearls over diamonds, performing, poetry, post-colonial literature, prose, puppies, reisling, roller coasters, sandra cisneros, scary movies, sharon olds, short stories, skiing, skydiving, sociology, soy products, summer, swimming, swingsets, sylvia plath, the brontes, the english language, the kitchen girls, the ocean, the supernatural, the thesaurus, the wizard of oz, theatre, thunderstorms, tiger lillies, tofu, travel, used bookstores, vanilla, vegetarianism, vignettes, vintage fashion, virginia woolf, walking too fast, wine, words, working out, writing
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New York University - New York, NY (2002 - 2006)
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