The girl in this picture: is 23. works at a raw...

The girl in this picture:

is 23.
works at a raw food juice bar where co-workers send her negative ‘vibes’ when she plays Sonic Youth on the stereo, and is routinely tipped in healing crystals and weed.
has probably put her hair in dreadlocks as the ultimate “f*ck you” to her mother, who has spent 23 years chasing her with a hairbrush.
Will shave her head in a year in some kind of Plath-ian/early 20’s fit. It will actually look pretty good.
Secretly watches Laguna Beach, but would NEVER admit it, because she REALLY loves Almodóvar’s body of work, you know?*
Has dropped out of college for the 3rd time, probably because she is too busy having day-long teary fights with her boyfriend on the phone.
Wears a lot of miniskirts and tube socks.
Can still handle cheap alcohol.
Probably has an overdrawn bank account.
Lives between a Baptist church and a sex club with two lesbians who are ex-girlfriends, a terminally unemployed drag queen, and a brooding guy raised in an evangelical cult who will become the above-mentioned boyfriend.**
Will get mugged in front of this house next year, during which she and the mugger will pull endless balls of yarn (she is really into knitting) and beer bottles from her purse in an attempt to find her wallet, which only has a card for her overdrawn bank account. The mugger will be disappointed in a sad, fatherly kind of way.

_{*23-year-olds are notoriously insufferable.}

_{**They will sit on their favorite neighborhood steps 7 years later, watching the next generation of 23-year-olds walk by. “Were we ever that awful?” she will ask. “We were worse,” he will reply. “I hated those dreadlocks,” he will also tell her. They will laugh about this for at least ten minutes.}