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1. I am 23.2. I want to be 5.
3. My full first name is Demetria.
4. My parents weren�t hippies, they just wanted to name me after a goddess.
5. I think that being named after the goddess of the harvest has contributed to my being a nurturer.
6. I grew up on Martha�s Vineyard.
7. I wasn�t rich, so don�t ask.
8. Primarily, I was raised by my mother.
9. I think my dad and rockin' stepmom are way better, though.
10. I moved out of her house the day before my senior year in high school.
11. She told me, �I should have smothered you in your cradle.�
12. I called the cops and haven't spoken to her since.
13. I�ve been to France.
14. And Greece, where I got terribly ill.
15. I once spent the night with my best friend's fuckbuddy. Drunkenness is a curse sometimes.
16. I am not Greek, despite my name.
17. I am Italian and no less than eight other nationalities.
18. My genealogy is traceable to the Norman invasion in 1066.
19. I was a National Spelling Bee contestant.
20. I got out in the first round.
21. I was paralyzed from the waist down for a week when I was 12.
22. I never want to experience another spinal tap again.
23. I have a boyfriend of 3 years and I love him more every day.
24. We plan to be married someday, sooner rather than later.
25. I�ve never told my parents that we met on the Internet.
26. I probably never will.
27. I ran away to Wisconsin three days after Christmas 2000.
28. I drove for twenty-four hours straight.
29. And I had strep.
30. I was only supposed to stay for three weeks.
31. I�m still here.
32. I have a cat.
33. I named him Ghostcat.
34. My hair gets redder every year.
35. I don�t dye it, either.
36. I sleep a lot.
37. I blame it on having had mono when I was 18.
38. I sleep naked, everywhere.
39. White noise and darkness are my somnolent companions.
40. I am a closet video game nerd.
41. I am an excellent cook.
42. I don�t like raw tomatoes.
43. I do like anything else tomato-y.
44. I have a funny laugh.
45. I have a distinct yen for things that sparkle.
46. I don�t know if I believe in God.
47. I don�t think I do.
48. I don�t drink very often.
49. I have a 16 year old half-brother.
50. I once lost 60 pounds in five months.
51. I starved myself.
52. And worked out a lot.
53. I didn�t benefit from it and gained it back.
54. I�m happier with the weight than without it.
55. I�ve never had a cavity.
56. Or a broken bone.
57. I think paralysis makes up for that.
58. I was once told during a Tarot reading that I was done with my Karmic work.
59. For some reason, crap still happens to me.
60. I should be content with the world and myself by now.
61. I don�t really like humanity.
62. Sometimes, I don�t like myself.
63. I like to think I�m generally well adjusted.
64. I am the only person I know who has never had a pregnancy scare.
65. I do gets lots of stress-induced yeast infections, though.
66. I don�t want a baby yet.
67. I�m smarter than the average hamster.
68. Johns-Hopkins recruited me for their Talented Youth program when I was in elementary school.
69. I was too poor to pay for it, but I still took the SATs in 7th grade.
70. I went to a shitty college.
71. I dropped out in my sophomore year.
72. I got tired of professors telling me I should test out of their classes.
73. I don�t like to spend money.
74. I walk around stores picking things up and then decide that I don�t need any of it.
75. I like children�s costume ears.
76. I have one pair each of bunny, cat, and devil horns.
77. I sometimes dress up for sex.
78. I am fiercely protective of the people I love.
79. I have never been in a physical fight.
80. Snakes scare the bejesus out of me.
81. I used to work as a job coach for DD adults.
82. I quit because my boss was insane.
83. I will never do similar work again.
84. Even when I�m being paid, I don�t like being abused.
85. I have trouble being sympathetic to addicts of anything.
86. Unfortunately, I am too much of a helper to let that keep me from trying.
87. I am a reluctant idealist.
88. I knit.
89. I don�t put stock in astrology.
90. I am who I am regardless of the positioning of the cosmos at my time of birth.
91. I get wonderful compliments from people.
92. I try to avoid them because I don�t think I deserve praise.
93. Children and animals take to me like scales on fish.
94. I have only ever received one speeding ticket.
95. I was doing 74 in a 55 and it cost me $126.
96. I pretty much listen to music constantly.
97. I have been to many a concert. So many that I can't even list all of them.
98. I have seen the house in which I was conceived. I was way weirded out.
99. I am a technology whore and possess the gadgets to prove it.
100. I like to use insults in which "ass" is the prefix. (e.g. ass gladiator, ass cobbler, asshat, etc.)