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I am the only daughter of a pilot from Kokomo, Indiana and a nurse from Denver, Colorado. The first thing you should know about me, if your going to know anything, is that I have the greatest parents imaginable. Middle class, only child, abundant love. Unwavering support, no matter how outlandish my ideas about life. They would sell the clothes off their back to help me follow my dreams. This, however, doesn't mean that I get blindly spoiled. They don't hesitate to point out inconsistencies in my game plans, or snap me back into hard work mode when I fall into lazy, hopeless mode. They make me work for what I want, and then they fill in the gaps when I can't do it on my own. I owe them everything, even though they insist that I owe them nothing.

So, that out of the way, I grew up in Elizabeth, Colorado. A little town no one has ever heard of, populated by more cows than people. I went to the University of Northern Colorado for my first year of college and then transfered to the University of Hawai'i at Manoa to finish out my BA in Theatre. I then moved back to Colorado for one year, the worst year of my life thus far, in which I couldn't manage to keep a job because of the economy and, when I did, it was under abusive management who walked the line of illegality on their treatment of employees because they knew we couldn't afford to quit. My parents watched me be miserable and go from restaurant to restaurant as they shut down, falling like dominoes. Finally, after a particularly bad encounter, they offered me the money to move to LA and pursue my acting career under the conditions that 1) I never hide it from them if I am in financial trouble and 2) that I give it all I have, and not give up unless I am sure I won't regret it.

And that's what I did. At the end of July, 2008 the three of us drove my car from Colorado to California, we all had emotional breakdowns, and then my parents flew home. I was alone in one of the biggest cities in the world with no idea what I was doing. To be honest, I still don't know what I am doing. I got a job, met some friends, got another job, quit my first job, made more friends, and now I am working as a cater waiter and doing extra work on movies and TV shows. My full-time job is finding the pot of gold at the end of the rainbow. Right now I'm just doing laundry.