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Gender	Female
Industry	Non-Profit
Occupation	Remover of staples & paper clips
Location	Long Beach, California, United States
Introduction	Dichos and Quotes that mean something to me: Less is more; Mejor sola, que mal acompanada; De medico, musico, poeta y loco, todos tenemos un poco; Como eres, era. Como soy, seras; A good cook is like a sorceress who dispenses happiness; It's so good that when you eat it, you just die - you just must die (from Big Night); Todo a su tiempo; One of the things about equality is not just that you be treated equally to a man, but that you treat yourself equally to the way you treat a man; To be successful, the first thing to do is fall in love with your work; Think wrongly, if you please, but in all cases think for yourself; We don't see things as they are, we see them as we are; Don't compromise yourself. You are all you've got; When choosing between two evils, I always like to try the one I've never tried before; There are no more thorough prudes than those who have some little secret to hide; When you are not rich, you either buy clothes or you buy art; Life itself is the proper binge; Fate keeps happening; To live is so startling it leaves little time for anything else; Mistakes are part of the dues one pays for a full life; For sale: baby shoes, never used.
Interests	traveling, candles, movies, writing, lectures, learning to speak Italian, poetry, food, cooking, wine, exploring music, dancing; coffee; watching the birds in my backyard
Favorite Movies	Big Night; Babette's Feast; Eat, Drink, Man, Woman; The Wedding Banquet; Mostly Martha; La Strada; Panne e Tulipani; The Motorcycle Diaries; La Strada; The Tank; Enemy at the Gate; Day for Night; The Truth about Charlie; Il Postino; Cinema Paradiso; Dance with a Stranger; Dirty Dancing; Like Water for Chocolate.
Favorite Music	ah - this one is always tough, but here I go: Boleros, Rancheras, Salsa, Celtic, Fado, jazz (Charlie Parker and Fats Navarro!)Julia Fordham, Carly Simon, Joan Armatrading, Flamenco, Nuevo Flamenco, Slava, Bjork, The Rippingtons, Joni Mitchell, Leonard Cohen, The Magic Numbers, Zucchero, Andrea Bocelli, Susana Baca, Paul Simon, Gato Barbieri, Steely Dan, Eros Ramazzotti, Biagio Antonocci, Mario Biondi, Edith Piaf, Randy Crawford, Oscar Petersen, Art Farmer, Loren Wood; Yo-Yo Ma, Bonnie Raitt, Loreena McKennit, Gregorian Chant, Baroque, Django Reinhardt, Aznavour, --very too many!
Favorite Books	A Prayer for Owen Meany; Man's Search for Meaning; Shadow of the Wind; This Much I Know is True; The Gift, Poems by Hafiz; Why I Wake Early, by Mary Oliver; Delights & Shadows, by Ted Kooser; Tikki Tikki Tembo; Grammar Snobs Are Big Fat Meanies; Cider House Rules; A Year of Magical Thinking; Like Water for Chocolate; An Unquiet Mind; What's Up Doc?; The Alienist; The Artist's Way; The Turn of the Screw; Reading Like a Writer.

It's Sunday. You've spent the day entirely alone - you haven't even stepped out of your house. Would you say you've wasted a day?