It should then come as no surprise that my favorite band is Sigur Rós. In fact, it’s my favorite place on Earth and where I feel most like myself. I am 100% a Marianne Dashwood (“sensibility”), a hopeless romantic and someone who wears her heart on her sleeve. While everyone expected my favorite book of hers to be Pride & Prejudice, it’s actually Sense & Sensibility.

However, as a teen I did enjoy reading Jane Austen. I prefer textbooks and historical nonfiction. I am not much of a novel reader or historical fiction reader. I don’t read novels, but my favorite is Sense & Sensibility. Considering Vilnius has been on my travel wish list for a long time, I was pretty excited to learn something new about my heritage and I’m looking forward to finally visiting Lithuania someday.ģ. My maternal aunt recently completed a 23 & Me DNA kit and discovered that while we most certainly have Danish blood, we also have Lithuanian blood. I can speak Italian and Danish, although I read and write both languages better than speak it. I’ve had the pleasure of visiting both Italy and Denmark twice, which made me feel right at home. My paternal family came from Naples, Italy over 100 years ago, and my maternal grandfather immigrated from Espergærde, Denmark in the 1950s. Despite being only an hour from New York City, I barely spent any time in the city until I was 17. I grew up spending summers by the shore and praying for snow days in winter so I didn’t have to go to school.

While I haven’t lived in New Jersey since I was 17, I was born and raised there in a small town called Manalapan. GTL! A lot of you already knew this, but for those who are new here, perhaps you didn’t.

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