Dani

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Okay.

So I'm very intentionally keeping some of the details here vague.

The reason for that will become self-evident a little bit later.

So this starts in 2012.

At the time, I was like 23 and I had just started my first graduate program.

So I'm in grad school.

I was going to a private university in a very overpopulated, very high cost of living part of the country, back in the States for this.

During that time of my life, because I was in grad school, everything was expensive.

I was hustling hard.

I had an assistantship at my graduate school to offset some of the costly tuition.

I was a freelance writer for a handful of health and fitness lifestyle type online publications.

And I waitressed.

And so I was gone all the time.

And I've been like a hobby bodybuilder, power lifter for like 20 years now.

I thought about it for a minute, but that's not the point.

But anyway, so I am never far from my gym bag, right?

So at this point, between having three jobs and classes and this time-consuming hobby, it was not uncommon for me to leave my apartment at 6 o'clock in the morning and then not come back at all until midnight or later.

And every time I left my apartment, I had to take everything with me.

My car was the center of my universe.