Showing posts with label Dreams. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Dreams. Show all posts

Friday, September 11, 2009

How it all began...

Il était une fois... there was a slightly naïve and depressed twenty-something girl in the Santa Cruz Mountains who had just about given up on her future.  Broke, single, and with really bad stress-induced acne, she was sitting in her parents' house on a cold, pre-winter day toying with the idea of selling her kidneys on the black market in order to make her first student loan payment.  Luckily, she sidetracked herself first with a generous dose of crazed  Facebook stalking of the people she went to high school with, if only to see if she was the only person from her graduating class with $20,000 in student loan debt with a balls job punching numbers part-time for a vitamin nutcase.

Slightly cursing the Yale and Berkeley graduates and secretly relieved by other graduates who also, evidently, were struggling to find a job, someone's Facebook network status suddenly caught her eye with one simple word: "France".  A revelation!  Little will this underclassman ever know that his publicly viewable Facebook page would change the course of this French-obsessed girl's dreams forever.

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