WORDS I LIVE BY: YOU CANT BE PERFECTat everything from day one.
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That philosophy and my consciousness of the world was instilled early on by my grandmother who hitchhiked across the globe and met my grandfather in India in the late forties—a crazy thing for a young white woman to do at the time. I was lucky that I grew up feeling like I didn’t need to follow certain life rules or a specific timeline. It’s what made me decide to take a gap semester in Africa when I was 17. My family didn’t have much money, but I convinced them and my college scholarship committee to let me use some of the funds to do volunteer work in Ghana. That trip changed my life.
This story is from the November 2018 edition of Glamour.
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