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name: Natalie Rose
birthday: december, (friday) the 13th, 1985
age: 25
gender: female
eyes: brown
hair: red
height: 5'11"
handedness: ambidextrous, but primarily left
heritage: Russian/Polish/English/German
birthplace: Santa Monica, CA
hometown: Westhampton Beach, NY
where I live NOW: Tucson, AZ
occupation: Development Associate at the American Red Cross, Southern Arizona Chapter
school: Bennington College (Bachelors)
concentration: Liberal Arts (with interests in photography, literature, education and music)
orientation: queer
relationship status: single
political views: progressive / queer / feminist
religious/spiritual views: it's complicated-- we'll go with "spiritual"
likes: music, movies, flute, piano, voice, cello, guitar, writing, prose, poetry, journalism, pens, books, tea, cards, cats, photography, photoshop, sailing, wind, compasses, water, ocean, canoeing, kayaking, mountains, beaches, snow, rain, thunderstorms, romance, insanity, anime, shoujo-ai, breasts (on any gender), sushi, trying new things, girls, boys, androgony, taking a stand, passion, faith, love, honesty, forgiveness, optimism, dreaming, daydreaming, imagination
dislikes: apathy, bigotry, misogyny, sexism, stereo-types, close-mindedess, intolerance, dishonesty, anyone who tries to force his/her religion on someone else, littering, being called "Nat," spiders, coffee, ciagrettes, SUVs, repeating myself more than twice, rudeness, bad spelling/grammar

::favorites::

number: 13
color: aqua blue
day: Sunday
month: October
song: (currently) "Soldier" by Ingrid Michaleson
food: sushi
sport: baseball; sailing
drink: I like my liquor like I like my women-- the fruitier, the better!
candy: anything white chocolate (I don't care that it's not really chocolate)
ice cream: green tea
season: autumn
website: www.answers.com
animal: feline; white tigers, black panthers
item of clothing: black button-down shirt
word: laugh
place: Denali, Alaska
music: The Dresden Dolls, Amanda Palmer, Ingrid Michaleson, Sara Barielles, Kate Nash, Regina Spektor, Lady Gaga, Metric, Stars, Garbage, Jewel, Dashboard Confessional, Linkin Park, Queen, Jean-Pierre Rampal, Jethro Tull, Frou Frou, Imogen Heap, Jimmy Eat World, Juno Reactor, Poe, Stabbing Westward, T.A.T.U., Nickel Creek, Coldplay, Blink 182, Nichole Nordeman, Natalie Grant, Dido, Green Day, Vertical Horizon, Verve Pipe, Natalie Merchant, Natalie Imbruglia, Avril Lavigne, Evanescence, AFI, Nobou Uematsu, Philip Glass
movies: Garden State, Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind, Lost in Translation, The Red Violin, 25th Hour, Titanic, Saw, The Ring, Kill Bill, Crouching Tiger Hidden Dragon, Hero, High Fidelity, Beauty and the Beast, Serenity, Life is Beautiful, Chocolat, The Neverending Story, Corpse Bride, Moulin Rouge, Rent, Harold and Maude, Amelie
t.v. shows: BLEACH, Scrubs, 30 Rock, Pushing Daisies, Buffy the Vampire Slayer, Futurama, The Simpsons, CSI, Sex and the City, Arli$$, Six Feet Under, Gargoyles, The Twilight Zone, Revolutionary Girl Utena, Fullmetal Alchemist, Read or Die, Firefly, The Critic, Bewitched, Gilligan's Island, Law and Order: SVU, Six Feet Under
books: His Dark Materials (The Golden Compass, The Subtle Knife and The Amber Spyglass), Jitterbug Perfume, Skinny Legs and All, Ender's Game, A Tree Grows in Brooklyn, Rebecca, Bridge to Terabithia, The Kitchen God's Wife, Song of Solomon, Catcher in the Rye, The Secret Life of Bees, The Great Gatsby
writers: Toni Morrison, William Maxwell, Amy Tan, Orson Scott Card, Daphne du Maurier, F. Scott Fitzgerald, Beatrix Potter, Tom Robbins, Audre Lorde
poets: Constantine Cavafy, Billy Collins, Brenda Shaughnessy, Walt Whitman, Robert Frost, Emily Dickinson, April Bernard, June Jordan

::quotes::

"I myself have never been able to find out precisely what feminism is: I only know that people call me a feminist whenever I express sentiments that differentiate me from a doormat or a prostitute."
-Rebecca West (1892-1983)

"Love is the triumph of imagination over intelligence."

"I didn't just heed what I was taught, men and women should be together, it's the natural way, that kind of thing. I'm not with you because of what family, society, life tried to instill in me from day one. The way the world is, how seldom it is that you meet that one person who just *gets* you - it's so rare. My parents didn't really have it. There were no examples set for me in the world of male-female relationships. And to cut oneself off from finding that person, to immediately halve your options by eliminating the possibility of finding that one person within your own gender, that just seemed stupid to me. So I didn't."
--Alyssa, from Chasing Amy

"We set out to change the world... ended up just changing ourselves."
--Kurt Wild, from Velvet Goldmine

"Love a little more, 'cause everyone's broken."
--from "Real to Me" by Nichole Nordeman

But what if you're wrong? What if there's more?
What if there's hope you've never dreamed of hoping for?
What if You jump? Just close your eyes.
What if the arms that catch you, catch you by suprise?
What if He's more than enough?
What if it's love?"
--from "What if" by Nichole Nordeman

"there is thing keeping everyone's lungs and lips locked
it is called fear and it's seeing a great renaissance
after the show you can not sing wherever you want
but for now let's just pretend that we're gonna get bombed
so sing..."
--from "Sing" by the Dresden Dolls


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