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It took my parents a while to come up with a name for me; I went the first two weeks of my life without having a name. My mother wanted Dakota, my dad wanted Ripley. They both hated their top choices, so they compromised with Rachael, which was on my mother's list. If I were a boy, I was going to be Ryan. So, yeah...that's the story.

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"An intellectual says a simple thing in a hard way. An artist says a hard thing in a simple way." -Charles Bukowski