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Thank you so much for listening.

You're thinking on me, you don't know me well.

You think you know me, you don't know me well at all.

You don't know anybody till you talk to someone.

My name is Willow and I work in digital marketing and music. I grew up as an only child. I was really shy and I didn't really fully fit in for a while. In junior high, I started singing in front of people, which eventually led me to theater. It was there that I met some friends,

one of them being a girl named Mila, who would eventually inspire me to start participating in community theater outside of school. We all lived in a small, somewhat conservative town.

I am half Asian, and I didn't meet my Filipino family until much later in

my life. So I grew up not being surrounded by a lot of other people like me. There weren't a lot of

opportunities for belonging and theater felt like my safe haven. I think a lot of other theater

kids probably feel that way. At the community theater

outside of school that my friends had introduced me to, I met my still best friend, Noah.

Noah had taken private acting classes with an actor named Matt when he was young. Matt had a brief

role in the early 2000s on a major television network.

He was in an acting class with one of our absolute Broadway heroes. He performed in New York

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