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I am a connoisseur of curiosity and particularly those curious things involving the outdoors and adventure. My spirit animal is a sea otter but I ended up with the nickname Moose--ironic because of my miniature (but mighty) dimensions. Or so my mother says. I've been mistaken for a homeless man on several occasions and recently was denied the position of Hotdogger aboard the infamous Wienermobile. "Franks but no Franks." My dad was changing my diapers in a tent, the southern appalachians are my backyard, my life changed when I purchased my first pair of crocs and I have a brief but full history with lava lamps and the fermenting sciences.
