• I read too much. I'd get books taken away instead of TV time when I misbehaved as a child.
• As a young girl, I'd write my own newspaper on the back of restaurants' paper placemats.
• I did a report in fifth grade on the typewriter and have wanted one ever since.
• Through Twitter, TIME magazine published one of my Instagram photos.
• I'm a proud southpaw.
• I worked at a pie shop for seven summers.
• My high school did not have a newspaper.
• Unlike most college students, I never changed my major.
• I am happiest pondering the lede to my next story.

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