- Pick up cigarette butts in a frozen custard parking lot at age eight.
- Develop high cheekbones; stain your eyes honey-hazel; grow your lips lush, pillowy, and rosy.
- Mismatch your socks for luck.
- Draw magical creatures and quirky strangers.
- See ghosts wherever you go.
- Grow tall, lean, and leggy—a designer’s wet dream, lusted after by women and men alike.
- Blur the lines between homosociality and homosexuality.
- Go to NYU; get discovered; become a model.
- Move to Hollywood; audition; become a star.
- Create your own nation—a fantastical, playful realm of pixel, squiggle, and pajama parties—and call it Gublerland.
- Grow out your hair.
- Cut your hair.
- Become a chipmunk, not once, not twice, but three times over.
- Dance for the hell of it.
- Alternate between facial foliage and a clean-shaven look.
- Go shooting, with Jerry Mathers, on a Rapture Fail Saturday.
- See more ghosts.
- Glomp random strangers.
- Eat Pocky and green tea Kit Kat bars, traipsing through Ikebukuro.
- Sport Princess Leia side buns.
- Grow your hair again.
- Love everything you do, every minute of every day.
Copyright 2012. Antoinette M. Herrera.
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