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I am Chelsea Harrison, born and raised in Fort Worth, TX and did not move far to settle at college at Southern Methodist University. I am fortunate enough to have a mother who is my best friend and two fathers, step and biological, as well as a nine-year-old brother, Blake, who means the world to me. Hard to believe now, I was not always correcting strangers at the mall who commented on my "son"...my eleven years of only child-ness were very molding. I developed a comfort with people who were older than I, by any number of years, and quickly found my independent side. Since Blake however, my inner child has resurfaced and we have the privilege to "grow up" together.

From the moment I could walk and before my graduation from pull-ups, my mother put me in dance lessons. Our first performance was at an outdoor town festival and, much to my and my onlookers embarrassment, I went stiff and straight-faced when my feet hit the stage. I learned that lesson the hard way and you will find a smile on my lips and some sort of rhythmic movement anytime music is playing. It is a passion of mine.

I went to a small high school and graduated with just 66 other people, all of my best friends. That was a large time of discovery for me. I took some of my first leaps of faith, made some of my biggest mistakes, and learned some of the biggest lessons to date. I experienced love, heartbreak, death, everything that you see in those cliche movies; I lived that. I believe it heartened me most of any period of my life so far and I am so thankful for that because it prepared me for a brand new group of friends (best I could ask for), new environment, changed routines, and all of that other stuff that people like me find so shocking their first year in college.

As for the future, I do not like to jinx anything but I am a firm believer of doing what you love in life and the fact that a job is not of worth nor beneficial to you if it does not bring you happiness. "Future" is a heavy word and scary to most, including myself. It is any period of time, even seconds from where you are now, and sometimes must be taken in that smallest sense.