Growing up, everyone called me Julie.

Juliette is my given name, but I didn’t start using it until my junior year of high school after a super inspiring trip to Melbourne, Australia.

It was my first time in a big city by myself, let alone in a different country on my own. I went to the art museum, the zoo, the Queen Victoria Market and just walked and walked and walked. When I asked for directions, the good looking guys all said they’d like to be my Romeo and that, along with the freedom I felt, made me want to be Juliette forever.

Not only did I finally feel like me, but like a catipillar transformed into a butterfly and set free, I’d left home as one person and returned as someone new… an artist.

I hid that artist away again for years after I graduated college.

But on that trip to Australia, I’d taken the first step. When I got back to school, I asked everyone to call me Juliette. My teachers in art and english did, but never my teachers in math and science.

This completely changed the direction of my life.

I felt so alive around art and writing (and later reading). Although it took many, many years to figure out my path and purpose, I finally realized, I’ve always been an artist and I had to be creative.

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xo Juliette

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