Not too long ago, I got on the line with a woman I'd gone to college with.

Her name's Danielle.

Danielle Lefave, I am a small animal veterinarian in the Vermont New Hampshire area as of July

when we moved up here from Washington, D.C.

And I'm a fellow Williams-alive colleagues.

And we're Instagram friends.

Yeah.

Please forgive my scratchy voice in this interview, by the way.

I had a cold.

What happened to you on Instagram?

How did it start?

It started with a message that I got from an acquaintance when we were in Washington, D.C.

We were really big into soccer and following D.C. United and the women's team.

And I got a message from a soccer friend that said something to the effective, hey, I'm

starting a clothing line.

Would you be interested?

This friend was someone whose work overlapped with soccer and it didn't seem that unlikely

that this was something he would do.

I mentioned it to my husband and he said, oh, well, yeah, good for him.

Cool.

And it didn't raise any red flags it should have, but we had just been traveling.

I was tired.

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