-: My start in Virginia in 2003, it was really sort of the,
what I consider the beginning
of me becoming the adult I am now.
Prior to that,
I wouldn't say my household was very religious,
but it was very authoritarian.
My parents were like, you know what I say do and you know,
there was room for you to question like,
what we're having for dinner?
But not really beyond that.
And so going to college and sitting in classes where,
you know, we're talking about things
that I had just sort of taken as true
and starting to question some of the things
that I had been taught about history, about religion,
just really, I think it made me a more well rounded adult.
It made me a lot more accepting of things.
And I think it also taught me to think critically about,
not only what I'm learning, but what I'm experiencing
and what it means on multiple levels.