The rest is history.

Once upon a time there was a girl who dreamed about being more than just an internet explorer. When she wasn't working on the world wide web, she liked to slip away and rediscover anything that had either been forgotten or frozen in time. She was determined to hold a creative flame to sentiments of the past that might otherwise be disregarded or destroyed by the insidious rush and thoughtlessness of the modern world. In her attempt to not let her own fire go out, "spark by irreplaceable spark in the hopeless swaps of the not-quite, the not-yet, and the not at all," she started sharing some of her musings and visual inspiration of what stirs her here:

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