when i can move to Berkeley, i will change the name of The Heroine Addiction to A Girl Writes in Berkeley.
Berkeley has a stigma for being a dirty crazy- hippy place so close to dangerous Oakland. but that's not the case; i've been in the most beautiful neighborhoods and seen so many splendid sights to this other city by the bay. it's not as wild as San Francisco, but it's not suburbia either. it's a great middle ground i want to settle down in.
A Girl Writes in Berkeley would be the ultimate homage to my favorite book of all time, A Tree Grows in Brooklyn. Just as the tree in the story refuses to die and persists in growing again (no matter no many attempts have been made to remove it/ cut it down), I will continue on with writing, and in the place that first inspired me to write. Francie Nolan in Tree refuses to live a dismal life in poverty, rising up in the end to enter college and move away from the slums of her shabby Brooklyn neighborhood in Williamsburg.
Perhaps it will take me forever to rise up past setbacks, but nothing will keep me down in the ashes. i will continue writing for the rest of my life, and i will bring my creations to life in the little city i love so dearly.
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