I'm 33, my generation, when I was young, we'd go out into the woods for the entire day and come back for dinner. I was definitely a kid of the '80s, who was out and about.

Iowans are super talkative, like me. I'm very talkative. I'm very curious about strangers.

I left the Midwest feeling like, "People are small-minded, they don't want to ask questions, they don't want to think out of the box." Some of that was true.

I don't want to get into an argument at the bar with some old racist homophobic person.

For a long time I wanted to be special and to stick out amongst the crowd. Something I yearn for now is to be one of many.

Sometimes people think, "You don't get to have it all, you don't get to be happy, life's a struggle," but what if it's not?

I'm very much a homebody so once I have my home set up how I want it, that's my zen, my comfy little nest where I drink my wine and watch my Netflix.