Who Am I?

As I sit here at my computer, my initial thought was that this assignment was going to be easy.  In fact, it is not.  I do not know where to begin or end for that matter.  Anything and everything I have done, said, seen, and been a part of, all my life, has left footprints in my personality and has made me into the individual I am today.

        Twenty-two years ago, my parents found out they were going to have a little girl.  They knew right away, they would name her Stephanie.  Coming from a French background, my Dad loved the name and my Mom thought it would fit since she was finally going to have a little princess.  My name means crowned one.  Hence, a princess.  I was always the "baby" and the "spoiled one" according to my two older brothers.  They always seemed to pick on me, but somehow were always protecting me from anything and anyone who came too close.  

        Always being the little one, my friends pick on me for being little as well.  I have always been the tiny, short one(5'2" and a half to be exact).  Therefore, given the opportunity to be called several nicknames: Shorty, Spanky, Smurfette, etc.  Needless to say they were also always looking out for their little friend.  Through countless moving throughout my life, I have seemed to keep several friends, who are spread throughout the Maritimes and Ontario.  

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I grew up in a small town called Louisdale, in Cape Breton, Nova Scotia.  My family and I moved one summer when I was fourteen years old, to Moncton, New Brunswick.  We shortly discovered that it was not the right place for us.  After two or three months we moved back to Louisdale.   I then moved to Toronto, Ontario, when I was sixteen years old.  I lived there for the next six years, and moved here to Halifax, Nova Scotia, almost four months ago.  Being from Cape Breton, moving to Toronto was a huge change and very difficult to ...

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