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October 2015

Features

12 They can fly twice as high

See how monarch butterflies from Columbus are touching the world

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Fool them once

Treats that get your family to eat the good stuff

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Setting the pace See who this tiny dancer grew up to be 2 She Magazine // October 2015

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REGULARS 6 Just a Minute Quick info you can use 8 Out & About Fall events to keep you busy 10 She Finds ‘90s looks get a revamp 11 She Says Your favorite 1990s trends

EDITOR Jenny Elig COPY EDITOR Katharine Smith WRITERS Kelsey DeClue, Andrew Crowley

18 Community YesFest returns with a slew of movies 34 She Designs Make a stacked makeup caddy 36 Beauty A pro weighs in 39 Mind Over Mom Siblings vie for attention

photographer Andrew Laker ART DIRECTOR Amanda Waltz Editorial Design Kelsey Ruddell

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ABSOLUTE

monarch

The monarch butterfly chrysalis is beautiful: jade green, with gold spots

dotting the top rim. I had a chance to see many of them as I was reporting on this month’s feature on the monarch butterflies.

Lisa Weisner, who fell in love with the butterflies some 25 years ago and who has since released thousands of them, gave me a chrysalis. She does this often, giving away soon-to-be butterflies as gifts. It’s a way to get new people excited about raising and releasing monarchs.

At the end of our interview, she decided I would get a chrysalis. She selected a special guy just for me, and using a thin piece of string, she tied my chrysalis to a small stick that had a desiccated leaf at the top.

When the butterfly came out of its chrysalis, or eclosed, it would have a spot to pump its orange-and-black wings full of blood.

“OK,” I said, not quite getting it. “I’ll find a nice tree to tie it to.”

“It would do better inside,” Lisa said.

I gulped a little. I hoped Lisa didn’t see my hesitance, but pretty as the chrysalis was, it was still a bug. Or, better said, a once and future bug. The chrysalis also brought with it a fear of failure. Though the insect required no food or water, I had a bad feeling I would mess this up.

But I saw how excited Lisa was, and as she handed me the chrysalis tied to a twig, I committed myself to the bug. I didn’t name it, though.

The twig I stuck firmly into an aloe plant (the only plant I have in my apartment) and placed it on top of my built-in bookshelf, out of the sun. I am something of a worrier, so I tried to forget about the bug. If I paid too much attention to it, I would go crazy. I would touch it too much and kill it in my eagerness to help it or fix it. I left it alone.

Don’t get me wrong, I was excited about the little guy. On Monday morning, I told my co-workers. I told my parents, who were visiting from Florida.

On Wednesday, the butterfly did not eclose, nor did it eclose on Thursday. By Friday I was starting to give up. I’d killed this helpless bug left in my care. On Saturday, a wedding in Indy distracted me, and I didn’t have time to sit down in my place until Sunday morning. I had just settled in at my desk when I heard it: a small scuttling sound, a patter against the window. My eyes darted up to the aloe plant. The chrysalis hung from the twig, now empty. The noise sounded again

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from the window.

I parted the heavy curtains, and there was my butterfly. He was glorious: bright orange wings spotted with white and black, six legs and two antennae. He raged against the window pane with all of the vigor of something just born.

It was time for me to set him free.

I grabbed a mesh laundry basket and some paper plates and carefully pushed the butterfly into the basket. Outside, I found what looked like a comfy tree for my bug. I opened the basket. The butterfly got the message really quickly; he flapped his wings a couple of times, caught some air and soared, heading toward the west side of town.

He was free, and if fate allows, he would head to Mexico to party. By the time you are reading this, he might have been on countless booze cruises and sipped all manner of tequila. On his little shoulders, or whatever butterflies have, he took some of my worry, grief and fear.

The butterfly was with me for a few hours shy of a week. Though we didn’t interact that much, he did teach me a couple of lessons. He taught me not to worry quite so much, that sometimes nature just needs to take its course. He taught me that once my wings are unfurled, it’s time to soar.

Best,

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PRO

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Treat Yourself Even the toughest among us need a few kind words and a little reassurance.

Shuffle through the deck of “Affirmators,” $12, Lockett’s Ladies Shop, and you’ll get just that. Each one of the 50 cards in the deck features a positive statement and a charming illustration. “I’m beautiful even when I don’t think it,” reads a card featuring a drawing of a peacock holding a mirror. “I’m beautiful even when I don’t see it. … I’m beautiful, which is why I don’t have to try so hard all the time to show it.” Pull out a card a day and read it out loud for an instant boost.

If your faucets are a little scaly with lime mineral deposits, don’t sweat it. Soak an old rag in vinegar (any kind, but we used apple cider vinegar) and then secure it to your fixture with a hair tie.

Let it sit for an hour, then remove the rag and dry your nowsparkling faucet.

iFeel Pretty » Who among us can say that she has never experienced an inexplicably crummy day? The explanation might lie not in your behavior, but in your body’s hormonal cycle. For the woman without advanced training in the female reproductive system or even naturopathy, sometimes the body seems like a mystery packaged in bloating and wrapped up with a bow of bad attitude. But Gabrielle Lichterman’s Hormone Horoscopes app for both iPhone and Android platforms can hwelp demystify some of the feelings you’ll go through as part of your monthly cycle. The app is free and free of advertisements; you can check it each day to get a fairly good idea of how your day will go. After keeping up with the app for more than a month, you’ll gain lots of insights into your own behavior and learn that, rather than written in the stars, the outcome of your day is likely written on the body.

Landscape Trick You have permission to hold off pruning any evergreens for a little while, says Kris Medic, agriculture, natural resources and community development educator/ Purdue Extension board-certified master arborist.

“If you wait until November, you’ll have fresh material for wreaths and swags,” she says. For inspiration, see extension. oregonstate.edu/gardening/make-holiday-decorationsplants-your-garden. “Your public library will also have some great illustrated books to guide you,” Medic adds.

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Cheap Trick If you’ve ever been to a perfume shop, you know the drill: You inhale a nose full of a scent and then take a hearty whiff of coffee before checking out other fragrances. The coffee neutralizes odors and cleanses your olfactory palate. Guess what? This works in your fridge, too. Place a bowl of coffee grounds, used or unused, it makes no difference, uncovered in your cabinet or refrigerator to neutralize food odors and leave your kitchen smelling better.

Recommended Reading

Selections by Mary Clare Speckner, adult programming director at the Bartholomew County Public Library.

‘Eye on the Struggle: Ethel Payne, the First Lady of the Black Press’

By James McGrath Morris » For those of us of a certain age, many of the moments captured in this biography of Ethel Payne will take us back in time to various people and events: the civil rights movement, Richard Nixon, the Vietnam War, Shirley Chisholm, Nelson Mandela and others.

Though you may have been tuned in to the news at that time, you might never have heard of the subject of this book, that is, journalist Ethel Payne.

Payne was born in 1911 in a racially divided Chicago. She was the granddaughter of slaves and the daughter of a Pullman porter.

Thanks to his job and hard work, Payne’s father purchased a house in 1917, a rare feat for African-Americans living in Chicago at that time. In the Windy City, she and her siblings received a better education then most African-Americans; they spent many hours in the public libraries.

It was in the summer of 1919 when Payne was first exposed to the extent of the racial lines in her hometown when race riots broke out in Chicago and other cities. This moment and others later propelled her into the world of black newspapers, specifically the Chicago Defender. As the Washington correspondent for the paper, she attended presidential press conferences and raised questions related to African-Americans. Payne covered the Montgomery bus boycott and the Little Rock school integration crisis. In Little Rock she had to find accommodations in a private house as blacks were not welcome in Little Rock hotels. She traveled to Vietnam to cover the service of black soldiers and reported from Africa.

Payne was in attendance, along with Rosa Parks, Martin Luther King Jr. and others, when President Lyndon Johnson signed the Civil Rights Act of 1964. After the signing she was the recipient of one of the pens used to sign the act, a mark of just how important she was in the civil rights movement.

‘The Nurses: A Year of Secrets, Drama, and Miracles with the Heroes of The Hospital’

by Alexandra Robbins » In September during the Miss America pageant, Miss Colorado Kelley Johnson donned a stethoscope and scrubs and delivered a monologue about her nursing career during the talent portion. She caused a bit of unrest and brought to a national stage the topic of the book, “The Nurses: A Year of Secrets, Drama, and Miracles with the Heroes of the Hospital” by Alexandra Robbins.

Robbins, author of four New York Times best-sellers, follows the paths of four ER nurses in four hospitals. Along the way she also includes information from other nurses in different hospitals. To say that any career is a bed of roses would be a lie, and this applies to nurses. It is a rewarding job choice indeed, but according to Robbins’ sources, a career that can lead to drug addiction, bullying and hazing, all of which are described in “The Nurses.”

One portion of the book covers nurse confessions. These include: Don’t get sick in July as this is when medical students become interns; these new doctors are immediately in charge of direct patient care and could have the same responsibilities as secondyear residents. If you see a large gray box in a hospital hallway, it’s probably a container holding a deceased patient. Another confession: Some hospitals tell nurses to treat VIPs better than other patients.

The book has received many reviews on Amazon. Some of the negative reviews have come from nurses who say the author does not paint an accurate portrait of the profession. If you know nurses, you may wish to peruse this book and share what you read with them or ask them to read it. It will be interesting to find out if “The Nurses” causes a kerfuffle as Miss Colorado did.

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Fall rolls in with great events make a date

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Family Fun

Oct. 23 and 24 Comedy at Harlequin

Oct. 23 An Afternoon for the Arts

Comedian Tom Mabe delivers his standup act; the evening will also feature a cash bar. Time: 7:30 p.m. Location: The Harlequin Theatre, inside Fair Oaks Mall, 2380 25th St. Cost: $20 in advance, $25 at the door. Tickets available at Viewpoint Books, the mall office or Harlequin box office. Information: (812) 343-4597 and theharlequintheatre.com.

Live entertainment by Columbus Indiana accompanied by dessert by Caryn Wiggins of Desserts Etc. Time: 2 p.m. Location: Mill Race Center, 900 Lindsey St. Cost: $5 for MRC members, $10 for nonmembers. Information: (812) 376-9241.

Nov. 22 Fairy Tale Theatre: ‘Return of the Giant King’ or ‘Der Rosenwind’

Oct. 24 Yes Comedy Showcase

Featuring international opera soprano Mei Zhong. Time: 7 p.m. Location: St. Bartholomew Catholic Church, 1306 27th St. Information: Bogdan Minut, (812) 379-9353, ext. 237 or bminut_stb@yahoo.com.

Comedian Nick Griffin performs as part of the Yes Comedy Showcase. Time: 8 p.m. Location: Yes Cinema, 328 Jackson St. Tickets: $20 in advance, $25 at the door. Information: (812) 379-1630.

Oct. 29 A Taste of Columbus Sample delicious food, beer, and wine, provided by local eateries, brewpubs, and wineries. A cupcake competition will pit bakers against one another. Time: 4:30 to 7:30 p.m. Location: The Commons, 300 Washington St. Cost: $25 door.

Information: columbusarea.chambermaster.com/events.

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Nov. 7 10th Annual St. Bartholomew Concert Series: ‘East Meets West’

Nov. 15 Verdi’s ‘Requiem’ As performed by the Columbus Indiana Philharmonic and Chorus, part of the orchestra’s “Musical Journey.” Time: 7:30 p.m. Location: Columbus North High School auditorium. Cost: Varies by seat.

Information and tickets: thecip.org, tickets@thecip.org or (812) 376-2638, ext. 1.

Time: 2 p.m. Location: Edinburgh Pixy Theatre, 111 S. Walnut St., Edinburgh. Cost: Donations accepted.

Information: (812) 526-6513 or TheEdinburghPixy.com.

Oct. 23, 24, 30 and 31 The Haunting Haunted woods, mazes, covered bridges, a Western town, mining camp and more.

For younger children, child-friendly, non-scary hours begin at 5 p.m. Adultoriented “scare time” begins after 8 p.m.

Location: Shireman Homestead, 7060 W. County Road 200N, Columbus. Cost: $5 for child-friendly event; $12 for later hours. Information: shiremanhomestead. com/the-haunting.

Yes Comedy Showcase: Comic Nick Griffin will perform as part of the Yes Comedy Showcase.

girls night Nov. 5 Mingle-N-Jingle Featuring food, dancing, music and vendors for holiday shopping. Time: 5:30 p.m. Location: Factory 12 Event Loft, 1235 Jackson St. Cost: Free. Information: (812) 379-5655 and kburnett@ therepublic.com.

Through Oct. 31 Back Roads of Brown County Studio Tour Free, self-guided driving tour of dozens of studios featuring more than 20 artists creating in pottery to painting, woodworking to weaving, jewelry, metal, gourds, stone carving, broom making and bookbinding. Meet the artists, watch them work, explore spaces that inspire them and get a glimpse into their working lives. All you need is a map and brochure, available at the Brown County Visitor Center. Time: 10 a.m. to 5 p.m.

Location: In and around Brown County.

Cost: Free. Information: BrownCountyStudioTour.com.

Mingle-n-Jingle: Get in the holiday spirit at our annual Mingle-N-Jingle event.

Meet area merchants, sample their wares and make new friends during this fabulous evening out at Factory 12 Event Loft.

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Making up for the ‘90s

Cosmetic cycle turns back to the past

There’s an adage lurking that goes something like, “If you wore it the first time around, you shouldn’t wear it now.” In the face of revamped 1990s makeup trends, those of us who came of age in that decade would like to be granted an exception. Let’s think of it as a do-over for all of us 1990s high schoolers who were stuck with the cheap stuff or, worse yet, just didn’t know how to apply makeup. And for those of you who weren’t wearing makeup in the 1990s, here’s your chance to get it right the first time.

Brown/nude lipstick Then: Drew Barrymore was, truly, the It girl of the ’90s. She often wore brown lipstick below her incredibly arched and thin eyebrows. We all hit up the Wet-n-Wild displays at the drugstore so we, too, could snag our own shade of brown.

Now: If you’ve got a little more money to spend than you did in high school, Giorgio Armani’s Rouge Ecstasy in Caffe ($36, giorgioarmanibeauty-usa.com) is a subtle, contemporary color that looks as if it were inspired by your favorite latte.

Dark, vampy lipstick Then: When actress Uma Thurman appeared in a deep, dark purply brown, women everywhere had to have it. Chanel’s Vamp lipstick and accompanying nail polish were the colors to own; those of us without the $20 to blow on lipstick resorted to Revlon’s Vixen.

Now: You can still purchase Chanel’s Vamp nail polish, but the lipstick is consigned to our memories. Revlon saves the day once again; the brand’s Super Lustrous lipstick in Black Cherry (about $5 at drug stores) is a highly pigmented, deep plum that would be on-point on your lips in 2015.

Body Glitter Then: If you were heading out to a rave, you likely smeared on some body glitter. Who are we kidding? We put on body glitter, usually in lotion form, even when we were headed to school. In the mid- to late-’90s, every female under the age of 25 looked as if she had the skin of a gossamer extraterrestrial being.

Now: If you yearn for the gleam, the fine powdered glitter in NYX’s Roll-On Shimmer, $3.99 at Target, gives you a soft glisten.

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Nude Eyeshadow Then: Though some 1990s makeup was as subtle as a hammer, a lot of the looks were supposed to be effortless (think: Kate Moss in ads for Calvin Klein). Earthtoned and nude eyeshadows gave a little bit of color, while not being incredibly obvious. Unless, you know, they were incredibly obvious; google “1990s” and “nude eyeshadow” and you’ll see celebs of days of yore with brown eyeshadow smeared liberally on their lids.

Now: Maybelline’s palette of nudes, starting at about $9 and available at drugstores, features 12 shades in varying nude hues that will help you achieve the makeup-less makeup look.

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Each issue, we ask women a different question.

This issue:

What is your favorite trend from the 1990s?

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“Platform shoes.” — Macy Jackson

“The bob hair-do. And grunge!” — Melanie Remillard

“I still think the varying shades of brown lipstick are pretty. Also (I) thought the longer, curled under bangs looked good on just about every gal that wore them.”— Catherine Schwartz

Blue nails Then: No film quite set the look and tone of the 1990s like “Clueless,” and when the film’s star, Alicia Silverstone, appeared on David Letterman’s late-night talk show wearing makeup line Hard Candy’s delicate light blue shade “Sky,” a trend was born.

Now: Nail polish brand Essie has an assortment of demure blues in its nail polish line, $8.99 at Target. Look for “Bikini So Teeny” and “Lapis of Luxury.”

“Vamp anything, especially nails and lips.” — Vicki King

“Birkenstocks, dark lipstick. Things I do not miss: body glitter, too-thin eyebrows (my poor brows have still not recovered from the ‘90s).”— Erin Hawkins

“Doc Marten boots with everything, Gwen Stefani-inspired glam with cargo pants (complete with Bindi), Gap scents, blue mascara, burgundy lips and so much more.” — Caitlin Smith

“Pencil thin brows, tiny rhinestone barrettes, iridescence and heroinchic.”— Beth Bennett

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Taking Wing

Local women are raising and releasing monarchs

by Jenny Elig Photos by Greg Jones & Marissa Pherson

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ne evening in early fall 25 years ago, while she was cleaning up after supper, Lisa Weisner looked out her tiny kitchen window. The dead maple tree in her side yard was teeming with hundreds of monarch butterflies.

“They were just beautiful,” she says. “They were like jewelry. And the next morning they were gone. It was so ephemeral. I just had to do it again.”

The next spring, Weisner started small, finding and collecting monarch butterfly eggs and raising them by trial and error. In her first year, she saw about 20 monarch butterflies fly away. In 2015, she released about 500. Her efforts and her knowledge have put her in the center of a loosely organized local effort to send monarchs from Bartholomew County out into the world.

The waiting game The Weisners’ house, in the Harrison Lake area and across from Touch the Earth nature preserve, looks like a small castle built of Indiana limestone. It is surrounded by native plants reaching to glean the last bits of summer from the bucolic sky stretching overhead.

“Right now we’re winding down,” she says.

Circle around to her closed-in back porch and you find 10-gallon tanks. The room also has a low, slightly tinny hum. It’s the sound of Weisner’s caterpillars, masticating steadily. Eric Carle’s “The Very Hungry Caterpillar,” it turns out, was true to life. In the caterpillar phase, these insects have two missions in life: to eat and to poop.

The rearing of caterpillars begins in late spring. Weisner, a driver for UPS with a route that takes her through the Muscatatuck Preserve area,

Lisa Weisner, who has been raising and releasing monarch butterflies for 24 years, learned about the insects through trial and error.

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begins seeing monarch butterflies in May. She collects eggs in June, finding 30 eggs a day.

She organizes the eggs in batches of 10, keeping bugs at the same phase of growth together. The eggs will hatch; the black, white and yellow-striped caterpillars are moved into the tanks, where they molt. “They literally crawl out of their skin,” she says.

“It’s the coolest thing.”

When they are large enough, Weisner says, the caterpillars will come to the screen at the top of their tank and form a hanging J, then turn into a chrysalis. When the caterpillar population of a tank is either in hanging J or chrysalis formation, Weisner moves the screens to hanging racks constructed by her husband, Kurt.

“This way they get air flow,” she says. “The air flow is really important to keep the fungus from getting to them.”

The monarch butterfly chrysalis is shiny and jade green in color. The top rim and bottom edge are dotted with metallic gold that looks deliberately placed, as if it were melded on by a jeweler.

Before the monarch butterfly caterpillar enters the chrysalis stage, it lives to eat.

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The gold dots are something of a mystery. “Everyone has always wondered what it is,” she says. “The most recent thing I read is that it’s where the chrysalis draws the oxygen in.”

The parallel to jewelry is not lost on Weisner. When the monarch chrysalises are plentiful, she gives them away in jewelry boxes; the recipients can hang their chrysalis and watch the process.

When the butterfly is ready, it can be released with a wish. With each chrysalis in a jewelry box, she’s hoping to get one more person to fall in love with the butterflies.

On Weisner’s back porch, the chrysalises are largely still, but there is some movement. Get too close and there is an almost-imperceptible shift. There is tension. The hum on the porch is more than bugs rustling and chewing: It’s the hum of anticipation. A mid-September drop in temperature has slowed these monarchs down, and Weiser has brought space heaters, hoping to encourage the rest to complete their process.

“If these guys don’t hurry, they’re not going to make it,” she says.

The monarchs will spent 10 days of their lives as living jewelry; as their development progresses, the chrysalis begins to look smoky. The pod has actually grown translucent and is revealing the butterfly within. On Day 10, the butterflies will eclose, shedding the chrysalis. They will move to a nearby leaf, newly born again and vulnerable. There they will pump their wings full of blood and dry off. When ready, they will fly away. The September monarchs will head to Mexico.

“They come around when I am in the backyard and say, ‘Hi, Mom. By the way, we’re going to Mexico, and we’re going to party. The kids are on the milkweed,’” Weisner says.

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Gossamer beings The monarch butterflies themselves are not endangered or threatened. It is their migration to Mexico that is threatened, Weisner says. Diseases such as ophryocystis elektroscirrha and nuclear polyhedrosis virus can kill a monarch butterfly, to be sure. But the real problems are the lack of native plants, the pesticides used on farms and the mowing of roadsides that are threatening their flight. Monarchs that do not migrate will, over generations, evolve into a smaller species. If the butterflies do not migrate, Weisner says, in time the palm-sized, orange-and-black marvels we know will no longer exist.

In raising the butterflies and in providing a yard full of native plants for them to land upon, she’s creating an environment that’s all too often destroyed in the wild. And it’s a chance to see the monarchs in action. It’s a win-win, both for the butterfly tenders and the butterflies.

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For Lisa Weisner, the butterflies are “living jewels.”

Mara the cat watches over Marissa Pherson’s monarch butterfly caterpillars.

Marissa Pherson has planted her front yard with a buffet of native plants. In the morning, her young cat, Mira, likes to sit and gaze upon the nature show from her vantage point in the picture window.

“When we moved here, I wanted to incorporate native plants as opposed to tulips and daffodils,” Pherson says. “I learned that they were beneficial to native animals. You don’t really see many butterflies and bees hanging on your mums.”

Her front yard is planted with swamp milkweed; in the back, for swallowtail butterflies, she’s planted fennel. Planting natives is not just for insects, she says. One attraction begets another. “When you start planting for butterflies and bees, you are also planting for birds and things like that,” she says.

Just as her yard is full of native plants and animals, her kitchen has become home to them, too. Inspired

by Weisner, whom she knows through Columbusarea bicycling groups, Pherson found caterpillar eggs and began raising her own. Screen-topped yogurt containers, about 20 full on this morning, have taken over a long kitchen countertop. The sound of caterpillars chewing is audible; it’s a steady, metallic sound of tiny teeth tearing into milkweed leaves.

By late September, Pherson had released 71 monarch butterflies, with 20 more chrysalises left to hatch. “I was not planning to do this,” she says, looking down at a big daddy of a caterpillar. “I just wanted to plant some stuff and support some habitat.”

Pollination For the past three years, Southside Elementary School teacher Paula Bandos has raised monarch butterflies with her third-grade students. Using Weisner as a resource, Bandos and her thirdgraders have released close to 100 butterflies; the process begins on the first day of school, when her students cram themselves in around the tanks in her classroom, eager to see the bugs morph and change.

Initially, there was fear on Bandos’ part. During her first year, she thought she would kill all of the eggs and caterpillars. That fear transitioned into a love for the project.

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Inspired by Weisner’s efforts, Pherson has begun raising and releasing monarchs at her home.

“Science is not my strong suit, but here I am,” she says. “But don’t let the fear stop you. If there is something offered to you, I would take it.”

Bandos also baby-sat 60 of Weisner’s caterpillars in September. Though her brother and father also raised caterpillars, Bandos notes that women are the root of the local monarch movement.

“I’d say women gravitate toward it first,” she says. “We are more motherly.”

Columbus-based poet Nancy Pulley has similar thoughts about her monarchs. “I’m not sure why more women are interested in this,” she says. “My daughter did start calling her caterpillars her ‘babies,’ and I confess to wanting to nurture and care for the little guys.”

During her first year, Pulley released eight monarchs.

“Lisa said when the butterfly was ready to leave the cage, if you put your finger close to the front legs, it would attach to your finger,” she says. “When I felt the first butterfly attach to my finger, it literally took my breath away.”

As the season wraps, Weisner is gathering and drying milkweed seeds, to plant and to share with others. Interest in the monarchs has, over the past two or three years, snowballed.

Raising and releasing the butterflies is the smallest big thing Weisner can do or, conversely, the biggest small thing.

“It makes me feel that I’m contributing somehow,” she says. “They always say that if you whisper a wish or a message, the butterfly will carry it. Every one I release, I send a message with them.”

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They always say that if you whisper a wish or a message, the butterfly will carry it.

Every one I release, I send a message with them.

— Lisa Weisner

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Reel Talk YesFest returns with films from around the world

By Jenny Elig

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uy your tickets, hit the concession stand and find your seat: YesFest, Columbus’ annual film festival, returns Nov. 6 to 8.

The festival, now in its fifth year, shows featurelength, documentary and short films from around the world. With competitions in all three categories, films are culled from submissions that hail from all around the world.

The selection process begins early in the year; this year, organizers say, the festival drew more than 100 submissions. “The team really looks for good stories,” says Diane Doup, YesFest organizer and community outreach coordinator for Lincoln-Central Neighborhood Family Center, the entity that operates Yes Cinema. “I think those stories really resonate with people.”

YesFest had its beginnings some 10 years ago, when LCNFC heads were casting about for a new way to raise money. Executive Director Randy Allman struck upon the idea of running Key Cinema, which had closed.

YesFest

• When: Times vary, Nov. 6 to 8 • Where: Yes Cinema, 328 Jackson St. • Information: yesfilmfestival.com

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Operating the movie theater was a way to raise funds for the community organization; it was also a way to give some community members work experience. Rechristened YesCinema, the theater now shows firstrun, second-run, independent and classic films and, of course, hosts YesFest once a year.

Films, Doup says, can have a unifying effect on a community. “I think people enjoy tossing a film back and forth afterward, talking about what they loved about each film,” she says. “I think people go to the movies for a variety of reasons. I think they can have deep messages; they can have a spirit of fun about them. Everyone sitting in that room is there for the same reason: to be entertained.”

YesFest, which returns this year to its original threeday format, sparks discussion and fosters a dialogue, Doup says. Whether the dialogue is between audience members or with visiting filmmakers, the films get people talking.

“Most of all, we want people to leave with a good feeling and to be proud and enlightened. We want people to be proud of the fact that their only locally owned theater is providing such high-quality entertainment.”

Though many of the filmmakers come to Columbus from points around the country, not all of the auteurs will be coming from outside the state. Hope native Daniel Anderson will premiere his film,“Shattered Vial,” which was filmed, in part, at various locations around Columbus. Nearly half the films boast a female director, Doup says, and many have female producers. Whatever films you fancy, and whatever screenings you opt for, YesFest organizers anticipate a healthy turnout.

“We want people to come,” Doup says.“We want people to see some of these outstanding films. We want folks to be so excited that they don’t want to spend November 6 to 8 anywhere else but Yes Cinema.”

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The

right oves Columbus native dances her way onto the Pacemates

By Andrew Crowley Nici Denney is in her first season as a Pacemate, but you wouldn’t think that by looking at her; the Indiana Pacers cheerleader already has the bearing of a veteran. Dancing is a comfort zone for this Columbus native, one that has instilled confidence and helped her come out of her shell.

The road from Columbus East High School to the Pacemates involved a lot of hard work, dedication and perseverance and began when Nici was young.

Her mom, Sonya Denney, described dance as a source of confidence as well as joy for her daughter. “She’s a little shy until you get to know her and then when you get to know her she really comes out of her shell, and that’s kind of funny because on stage you wouldn’t even be able to tell that she was shy,” Sonya says.

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Dancing her heart out: Denney, who began dancing when she was young, says that landing a spot on the Pacemates cheerleading squad has been a dream come true.

First moves Nici’s dance career started in a tap class. She began as a wee 3-year-old, learning flaps and time steps. Watching her tiny daughter dance, Sonya realized her own dream. “(Nici) starting dance was actually kind of a catalyst for starting the studio.” Sonya opened Sonya’s Dance Zone in Columbus, and Nici became one of her pupils. She danced through elementary and high school.

After graduating from East, Nici headed to Marian University in Indianapolis, where she’s now a junior majoring in elementary education with a minor in special education.

She hopes to work with children in the kindergarten to second-grade age range. Nici says she appreciates Marian’s small campus.

“You get to know everyone,” she says. “I walk across this campus and I know 80 to 90 percent of the people that I see.”

College can often ring a death knell for hobbies and outside interests, but Nici held on to dance, joining Marian’s cheerleading squad. Kiley Watson, who coaches the squad, met her when Nici was a sophomore in high school. “She had been coming to our open gym practices,” Watson says. On the team, Nici is a worthy addition to the college squad. “She is an entertainer, and she is a performer,” Watson says. “There is a sparkle to her; there’s something different about her from other performers on our teams here. Anyone would be lucky to have her.”

She’s seen shy Nici grow into an advocate for herself. “She speaks up now more when she’s upset about things,” Watson says. ‘She’s very, very critical of herself, and she’s gotten so much better in that aspect. She’s gone from somebody who’s extremely shy to someone who’s confident in herself. And her talent, of course, is always getting better.”

Talent is what led Nici to the Pacemates, cheerleaders for the Pacers. The squad has existed in different iterations and names since the Pacers first tipped off in the American Basketball Association in 1967, and the Pacemates inspired other franchises to create cheer teams of their own.

Every Pacemate must audition the following season; veteran status is no guarantee for making the squad. Every spot on the squad is earned. Nici auditioned but did not make the team for the 2014-15 season, but she didn’t stop her efforts after the initial disappointment. Pacemates coach Michelle Duggan encouraged her to join the Boom Babies, a small group whose members serve as game-day ambassadors for the Pacers. “(Boom Babies) helped me get involved with the Pacers even though I wasn’t a Pacemate,” Nici notes.

After a year on the Boom Babies, Nici auditioned again, and this time was met with success. “So far it’s been really exciting,” she says. “When you’re announced a Pacemate, you’re just so excited about the whole experience.”

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Of course, living out a dream comes with some sacrifices.

“There’s a lot less sleep,” Nici says. “Schooling definitely comes first; that’s my main priority. I do anything to get my work done. If that means staying up until 3 a.m. to do so, I will do so. Once games start, I’ll really start feeling the pressure of balancing it all. So far it hasn’t been too stressful.”

Practice makes perfect It’s late afternoon in mid-September when the Pacemates are gathering for their scheduled rehearsal; they practice twice a week.

Practice doesn’t start until 6 p.m., but a few Pacemates are already at Bankers Life Fieldhouse, including Nici. When it’s time to start, Duggan wheels out a cart loaded with a sound system. Music plays a crucial role at Pacemates practice.

Duggan hits play and the first few notes of Justin Bieber’s “What Do You Mean?” come over the speakers. The mood of practice is upbeat. As a former Pacemate, Duggan understands the needs of the team. “I’m probably one of the most passionate people about this team. Just being in the shoes of the girls, it’s helped, because I know what issues they have,” Duggan says. “I know the ebbs and the flows of the season, so I can understand that a little bit better.”

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Nici Denney (far right, second row) joined the squad for the 2015-16 season.

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Part of Duggan’s job is to infuse the Pacemates with energy, no mean feat in the face of what can be a grueling schedule. Not only do Pacemates practice often, they are required to perform at every Pacers home game in the preseason, regular season and post-season. They also attend various Pacers sports and entertainment events throughout their contract.

But in the face of a busy schedule, the cheerleaders are cheerful and enthusiastic throughout the entirety of their three-and-a-half hour practice. Nici stands center court as the team works through the routine. She is where she wants to be. “(Dancing has) definitely left imprints on my heart,” she says. “I hope to continue doing it, whether it’s attending Zumba classes when I’m older, just something that’ll keep me doing dance. That’s what I love to do.”

“(Dancing has) definitely left imprints on my heart.”

- nici Denney

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Tricky Sneak some veggies onto your plate Compiled by Jenny Elig

Treats

In late October, when we hear the word “trick” in relation to food, we’re probably picturing costumed kids storming around a neighborhood, begging for high volumes of candy.

But there can be more cunning to food than trick-or-treating. Perhaps the best deception anyone can have up their sleeves is the ability to disguise veggies. Getting picky eaters to eat their veggies by masking them with flavors that appeal to their palates? Very tricky indeed.

Our readers gave us some tips for masking vegetables.

“It’s not necessarily a recipe, but I’ll make a smoothie with frozen fruit and throw peas in it,” says She reader Jennifer Corsi.

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For She reader and Pampered Chef independent consultant Sarah Coffman (pamperedchef.biz/sarahcoffman), disguising veggies is accomplished by fine chopping.

“Chop broccoli up finely and add to cornbread mix before baking,” she says.

“Kids will think that it is jalapeno instead.”

Add finely chopped carrots and spinach to spaghetti sauce. “When the spinach is chopped up finely, then it appears like spices regularly seen in spaghetti sauces,” she adds.

Something as reviled as cauliflower can be transformed into mashed potatoes, Coffman says. “Steam cauliflower until soft, then process in a blender or food processor,” she says. “Add a little garlic, olive oil, salt and pepper and process until it is the consistency of mashed potatoes.”

Flourless Oatmeal Bars Chickpeas provide filling fiber and a rich texture, but you’ll never taste them in this recipe from Sarah Coffman.

Nonstick cooking spray 1 can (15-16 ounces) chickpeas, drained and rinsed 2 eggs ½ cup reduced-fat creamy peanut butter 1 teaspoon vanilla extract ⅔ cup white chocolate morsels, divided ½ cup quick-cooking oats ⅓ cup dried cranberries ⅓ cup packed brown sugar ½ teaspoon baking soda ¼ teaspoon salt

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Preheat oven to 350 F. Lightly spray a pan with nonstick cooking spray.

Place chickpeas and eggs in food processor; process until well blended (mixture will not be smooth). Carefully remove blade from processor bowl. Transfer chickpea mixture to a bowl. Add peanut butter and vanilla; mix well. Add ⅓ cup of the morsels, oats, cranberries, brown sugar, baking soda and salt. Mix until combined. Gently spread mixture in pan. Bake 16 to 18 minutes or until wooden pick inserted in center comes out clean. Place remaining ⅓ cup morsels in a bowl and microwave on high for one minute, stirring every 15 seconds or until melted. Transfer melted chips to a small re-sealable plastic bag.

Remove pan from oven; let cool 5 minutes. Trim a small corner off the bag; drizzle chocolate evenly over top of bars and serve.

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Flourless Brownies

You’ll never know it, but zucchini is tucked away in this brownie recipe by Paleo Leap (paleoleap.com).

2 cups shredded zucchini 1 cup almond butter 1½ cups dark chocolate chips 1 egg 1/3 cup raw honey ¼ cup applesauce 2 teaspoons vanilla extract 3 tablespoons cocoa powder 1 teaspoon baking powder Preheat oven to 350 F. Combine all ingredients in a food processor. Pour the brownie mixture into a greased or parchment paper-lined pan. Place in the oven and bake for 45 minutes. Wait until the brownies are cool before cutting and removing from the pan.

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Skinny Mac and Cheese Cut your macaroni and cheese calories with the addition of cauliflower in the recipe, also from Sarah Coffman.

1½ pounds cauliflower (half of a large head or 1 small head) 2 cups uncooked elbow macaroni 2 garlic cloves 1½ cups chicken stock or chicken broth ½ cup milk 2 tablespoons flour 2 cups reduced-fat sharp cheddar cheese 1 cup 2 percent plain low-fat Greek yogurt Salt and black pepper (optional) Cut cauliflower into large chunks, keeping core intact. Grate cauliflower florets into large mixing bowl. Place cauliflower and macaroni in a microwavable Dutch oven. Slice garlic into Dutch oven. Whisk stock, milk and flour until blended.

Pour into Dutch oven and mix well. Microwave, covered, on high 17 to 20 minutes or until macaroni is tender, stirring once halfway through cooking. Meanwhile, grate cheese; add yogurt and 1½ cups of the cheese to the finished cauliflower and macaroni mix; stir until well blended. Season to taste with salt and pepper.

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Plaid Plaid has a richer history than most textile patterns. Consisting of crossing vertical and horizontal lines and executed in all the colors under the sun, the word “plaid” comes from the Gaelic word for “blanket.” Traditionally, a plaid (or blanket) would have been worn a bit like a toga, that is, wrapped around the waist and draped over a shoulder. The look has spread across the world, taking the checked pattern from culture to culture, giving birth to delightful local incarnations, including the dazzling madras prints of India, the wide tattersall squares of London, and the sweet checked gingham favored in the American South.

Wherever its origins and no matter the material, plaid is a pleasantly bold graphic choice. For fall, you can find every piece of your wardrobe in a plaid print, from hair bands to patterned shoes. Rule of thumb says stick to one plaid per outfit, but the more daring among you can mix and match. Here are a few of our favorite plaid finds.

Story and Styling by Jenny Elig // Photos by Andrew Laker Modeled by Ryanne Fenimore and Sarah Peters

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Scarves and Sweaters

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Designs Make a....

up Stacking

DIY project helps you organize your vanity

By Jenny Elig

This DIY tiered shelf project is so ridiculously easy, I’m afraid it won’t really add to your list of accomplishments. What it lacks in difficulty, it makes up for in usefulness; I’ll also add that making this project is relaxing in its own special way. And because the steps are so few, we have room for a little story.

Imagine you’re hiking along a creek and you come across a pile of rocks. These rocks are deliberately arranged and obviously done by human hand. This is a cairn, a man-made pile of rocks. According to Wikipedia, cairns were used as trail markers and landmarks.

In some settings, cairns are illegal; after all, in piling up native rocks, one is altering the natural landscape and potentially damaging the ecosystem. Legalities aside, more people are posting photos of rock piles on Facebook; they’re referred to as prayer stone stacks.

The Daily Om, a website with content dedicated to nurturing the body and the spirit, opines, “When you mindfully place a prayer by beginning a stone heap or adding to an existing mound, your thoughts and intentions are left in the care of fate itself.”

For some, the stacks are a meditational puzzle; like a Buddhist mandala, the stone stacks will likely be destroyed by nature. Meditation can lead to change, or change can lead to meditation.

In August, I looked in the mirror and decided my makeup uniform was looking rather stagnant; though

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it consisted of only four components (BB cream foundation, winged eyeliner and mascara, and red lips), I was feeling a little trapped in one look. I dragged out my entire makeup kit and picked through that. I wound up with some new looks and a whole pile of makeup on my bathroom vanity, displayed in three boring bins I’d purchased from a long-forgotten dollar store. The effect was just inelegant.

Enter my interpretation of the cairn: the tiered tray.

Like a cairn, the trays are stacked on top of each other.

They have an arrangement. Unlike a cairn, they are not messing up the environment or altering the natural land space. In fact, when my makeup is arranged on my new tiered trays, my bathroom is that much more orderly and my mind is that much more peaceful.

Here’s how you can make your own.

What you need: Three trays

(I found my nickel-plated trays at Dollar Tree)

Two candlesticks

(these can be of the same length or varying lengths)

Adhesive (I had DAP StrongStik on hand)

Step 1: Map out your tiered tray. If you opted for candlesticks of different lengths, see how that will work in your arrangement.

Step 2:

Apply your adhesive to the bottom of a candlestick. Put it in the center of a tray and press firmly.

Step 3:

Apply adhesive to the top of the candlestick. Press it into the bottom center of your second tray. Repeat once more, creating your tiers.

Step 4:

Play the waiting game and let your tiered trays dry. Then load it up with your cosmetics for an organized bathroom vanity.

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A pro makeup artist shares his top tips

By Jenny Elig

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Columbus native and professional makeup artist Daniel Klingler’s eye was developed early on, he says, by the architecture surrounding him.

“Anything with art has to do with the principles of design: harmony, balance,” he says.

It’s on those principles that Klingler based his recently released book, “Idiot Guides: Everyday Makeup Secrets.” The 250-page book, published

by Alpha, a division of Penguin Random House, features tips for choosing the best makeup for your features and step-by-step lessons for creating contemporary looks.

Klingler, who lives in Indianapolis and owns the Broad Ripple salon Neck Up Designs, has also created and crafted hair and makeup for theatrical productions in the United States and the United Kingdom.

Recently, he loaned his talents to the runway at Paris Fashion week, where he put ofthe-moment looks onto models for H&M. So what can we look for in the upcoming season? “It was really simple, clean makeup, matte lips,” Klingler says. “It’s very clean. For H&M, it was black liner on top and a subtle smoky eye. You’re going to see smoky, but brown smokies. You’ll see orange and nude lipsticks.”

Daniel Klingler used his knowledge of theater makeup to create the looks featured in his book “Idiot’s Guides: Everyday Makeup Secrets,” published by Alpha, list price $21.95.

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straight from the pro: Klingler likes to mix and match makeup. “I’ll go to Mac and Sephora and Ulta for a great lip color, but I can put a Lip Tar gloss, which is $20, over a similar color pencil from Wal-Mart.”

“You cannot put on your makeup well if you don’t have the right tools. Get a nice set of brushes,” he says.

“Think about it: The oil from your face is hitting the eye shadow. You’re mixing that into your makeup back and forth.” Klingler recommends five brushes: a powder brush, a blush brush, two eyeshadow brushes and an angle brush. “I use one eye shadow brush for the lighter colors and one for the darker colors,” he says. “Those come in different price points, but it’s $25 for something that you can use for years.”

If you break a lipstick, take a metal spoon and put the lipstick in it. Melt it over a candle and pour it into a contact lens case.

To keep mascara from smearing when you apply it to your lower lids, place a plastic spoon under your lower lashes.

Put Scotch tape on the outside of your eye to keep eyeliner straight when you’re applying it. Peel off and have a straight line. “What a fun trick is that?” he says.

If your eyeshadow breaks, put a few drops of rubbing alcohol on it and press it down with a quarter. “If it’s really broken, crush it down into a powder and pour it into a clear nail polish, and you’ll have a tinted nail polish,” he says.

If you take a complementary lip pencil and just go on top of the line of your lip and fill it in and layer it with a really juicy, highly pigmented gloss, your lips are going to look full, Klingler says. “And the gloss is not going to run,” he says. “The glossiness is going to make it look more shiny and plump.”

Klingler used Indianapolis-based actors and models to sport his signature makeup looks featured in “Everyday Makeup Secrets.”

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The sincerest form of flattery No one likes a copycat, right? Well, we have a pintsized master on our hands.

If you’re doing something, especially something that The DeClue Family is garnering attention from Kelsey DeClue is a Columbus native, a wife and the mother of two. She is at least one other person, the public relations coordinator at our copycat is right there Columbus Regional Health. to ride your coattails.

Her big eyes and brown curls make it difficult to harbor too much annoyance, though, and her main target is her brother, so my husband and I usually just stand back and marvel at the spectacle.

Those of you who know my 3-year-old (or have met him at least once) know that Nolan doesn’t shy away from the spotlight. He never demonstrated that infant/ toddler behavioral stage of feeling and projecting shyness and reserve. And now he has a devout understudy. Always at his side, 2-year-old Evey gleans all she can about how to take mere passersby, draw them in and mold them like putty in her hands.

The other day the DeClue clan was enjoying, I mean, surviving, a dinner out. That’s right, every once in a while, Ike and I temporarily lose our minds and think we can take a 2- and 3-year-old to a public place and ask them to sit still for longer than a minute.

But I digress; the server delivers the meals, and as usual Nolan cannot contain his excitement. He stands up in his chair to engage in his customary the-foodhas-come dance, which involves mostly shaking his buns and wiggling his hips. During his many years on the road with this act, Nolan has gained much attention from restaurant patrons and employees alike.

Did I mention Evey likes attention as well? Taking Nolan’s cue, Evey jumps up in her chair. “Mommy, Daddy, look!” she says, as food dribbles from her mouth. She shakes her bottom and laughs, basking in the adoring smiles and chuckles from her new fans.

Then, what typically ensues is a hip-shaking competition of sorts that escalates in noise and potential fall or spill level until the show’s director and producer are forced to end the scene and get the talent to take five.

Our little parodist is constantly “on,” and even everyday conversation presents an opportunity for Evey. When Nolan wants applesauce for a snack, Evey wants applesauce too, even if she’s eating the yogurt she previously selected. When Nolan is upset, Evey’s world is suddenly falling apart too in a slightly more urgent and dramatic way. When Nolan tells a story about something he did at preschool, Evey is right there to swear she did the exact same thing.

She must sneak out of day care, hail a ride and slip into the classroom during craft time, unnoticed, with the rest of the kids who are double her size. And, of course, you can guess this copycat behavior extends to not so favorable or funny acts as well, an occurrence that Nolan finds especially fortuitous. When both of them are drawing on the walls or on each other, or using real milk to “make soup” in their mechanical, talking slow cooker, Evey is always the one to blame.

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Come on, man, you’re going to have to try harder than that. When I overhear, “C’mon, Evey, do this, it’s OK, shhh …,” I know I need to drop whatever I’m doing, pick up the Clorox wipes and check in on rehearsal. And no matter how many times I try to instill the “big brother/ role model” ideals in Nolan, it goes in one of his ears, gets all jumbled up and comes out unrecognizable on the other side.

Of course, I know the day is coming when the mimicking will end. Evey will develop her own style and own it from start to finish. (Believe me, we’re getting close.) They’ll argue more and misunderstand each other, and their interests will begin to shift.

For now, though, just as many times as I hear the lead character conspiring on a mess with his loyal understudy, I also overhear plenty of this, “Aw, Evey, I love you. You’re my best friend.” A tiny voice replies, “Wuv you too, Nowan.” You can’t beat that.

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