Geovanna Murphy

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Geovanna Murphy is a third-year double majoring in English and Women, Gender and Sexuality Studies. She is hoping to pursue secondary English education, specializing in teaching ESL students. Outside of Iris, she is likely working a UVA sporting event or reading the latest from The New Yorker. Her favorite pastimes are buying overpriced coffee, watching rom-coms, and listening to music.

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And so, my mornings are not full of pain and hurt, just ache. 

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Nearly every one of my friends had a parent introduce them to a nebulous figure who punished naughty children. 

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I love words; I love that a specific string of words will stir some inexplicable feeling inside me...

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We go to the store and spend a mandatory 10 minutes perusing all available mystery boxes...

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Not so long ago, I received a phone call from my girlfriend, who informed me that she no longer saw us together. 

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In an effort to change and perhaps understand myself better, I have forced my hair to take the beating of my every identity crisis.

A blue, isolated kitchen.

I have always been a solitary person. For nearly a decade and a half of my life, I was convinced that I would enjoy no one else's company more than my own.

A colorful assortment of book covers, all oriented in a different direction.

One late-night library session, my group of medical-field-bound friends gave me the surprise of a lifetime—they all said they wanted to read more.

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A mi abuelo le salían las palabras como canción,

A pencil sketch of a PC with a guinea pig poster behind it.

Soooo I told my parents—it's not nearly as bad as I thought it would be, and I'm officially moving back home, literally tomorrow.

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Since my first watch of The Grinch Who Stole Christmas (2005), I have had a serious bone to pick with the Whos of Whoville.