Brianna LaPaglia

And I think for young girls, your first, like the love of your life is your dad.

Your first best friend is your dad.

He was my hero.

Yeah.

And growing up, I mean, my dad just always encouraged me to be whatever I wanted to be, whoever I wanted to be.

I was his fourth daughter, so he did raise me as a little bit of like a boy.

He really wanted a son.

I wore boxers until I was like eight.

I was confused.

But...

Yeah, like, he put me in football.

But he was always just so supportive of anything I wanted to do, even if I was bad at it.

And he was always so open to hearing how I felt about the world, about guys.

He created a relationship which was an open door where I didn't feel scared to tell him anything or scared to be honest with him about anything.

And I think that surely changed my life for, like...

ever.

I mean, it made me into who I am.

So yeah, my relationship with him is so important.

And his voice was in the back of my head the whole time.

I'm thinking of him like being at my basketball practices being like, go be like he would scream be from the stand.