Lissie

Whether I'm a hero or a zero doesn't really matter. It's all perception.

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In my 20s, my mom and I went and saw the bridges of Madison County, which are in Iowa, and I had…

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[My ideal] is being able to be outdoors, have a labor intensive life, and then have this other life, where I hop…

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I was toying with the idea of ambivalence a lot. It's something I work on, not being so invested in outcomes and…

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You need to get out of your comfort zone, return to the Midwest, see some family, and, as cheesy as it sounds,…

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Iowans are super talkative, like me. I'm very talkative. I'm very curious about strangers.

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The more you get into conversations with people, you find out they've been brainwashed by the news and they don't actually know…

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I don't want to get into an argument at the bar with some old racist homophobic person.

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I left the Midwest feeling like, "People are small-minded, they don't want to ask questions, they don't want to think out of…

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I keep re-watching Friends. It's so dumb. There's so much good TV and I'm really into all of it.

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I want to push myself to be brave and out of my comfort zone, but I guess I stay in my comfort…

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There was a time in my late teens and early 20s where I was motivated by this wanting to get out, to…

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I'll always want to play and share my music with as many people as I can, but the emphasis is more on…

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I lived in a small city on the Mississippi River across from Iowa, so I didn't have a country upbringing, but in…

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I'm really close to my family. As I get older, it's like they're the only people I really talk to.

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For a long time I wanted to be special and to stick out amongst the crowd. Something I yearn for now is…

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I'm very much a homebody so once I have my home set up how I want it, that's my zen, my comfy…

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I'm 33, my generation, when I was young, we'd go out into the woods for the entire day and come back for…

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Because I can isolate and be a bit of a loner, [my ideal] is finding some sense of community where I'm one…

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Sometimes people think, "You don't get to have it all, you don't get to be happy, life's a struggle," but what if…

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I'm strong and I can do things that scare me. I can drive in the snow even though it terrifies me. I'm…

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