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I think the moment I shaved my hair off was a pretty impactful moment. I remember when it was happening, I thought, wow, this is really like me showing my dedication to my job. I was 10 years old. Your hair as a girl, you're told, is kind of like what defines you as being kind of a girl and pretty and, you know, whatever. And I just didn't care about that. I wanted to do what made me happy. And so for me, that was this job. And so shaving my hair off, I'd say was a pretty defining moment just as like a person. I was like, and I was 10. So I wasn't thinking that deeply about it. But in the moment, I guess I kind of was when I, when I did it. And my mom was really like trying to just help me understand, like, you know, no matter what people are going to say about you, what they're going to think, you know, because she's preparing me. She's a logistical person she's like you did this because you wanted to do it and this made you happy and that really helped me because she prefaced it because that it did happen like for a year like a year or two after I definitely I got you know bullied in person at a young age um for having you know short hair and uh and I think had my mom not prefaced it maybe it would have hit home harder wow oh so you're saying that that actually protected you from that bullying that came after And she was like, really, that's what will happen? And she was like, I know the world, you know. And so she was so right because, you know, I'd been in many situations where I was made fun of, you know, for it. And, and then I just came back with what my mom and I talked about, which is like, well, I did this because this made me happy and I got to, I'm getting to live out my dreams.