I guess I really don't have any birthright specifically, like possessions or property. I'm an only child, so it's not like I've got the sibling competition factor. I guess I can talk about what I've inherited personality-wise from my parents?
I was always destined to love theatre and music. My dad grew up in New Jersey, really close to Manhattan, so my nana would take him to see shows all the time growing up. My mom's mom is a piano teacher, and all of her siblings have been involved in music from childhood. She herself learned how to play the piano at three-four years old, and she graduated from Duke with a music major (not sure which major specifically, but you catch my drift). These two theatre/arts/music-loving people got together and raised me on the arts. My first two movies that I ever watched were The Sound of Music and Cats (I would repeatedly ask to watch Cats and by the time I was three or four I could belt out "Rum Tum Tugger" like nobody's business). When I was a baby, my mom would play all of her classical music CDs (or tapes?) for me. By the time I was seven, West Side Story was my absolute favorite movie ever. I remember seeing Grease for the first time at my cousin's high school, and I just wanted to be Sandy so badly. Anyway, I'm rambling, but I'm pretty sure that that's the biggest inheritance I've gotten from my parents.
Here are some pictures of tiny Anna going to see shows at the Fox theatre (in Atlanta)!
Me with my mom at The Nutcracker (I think) |
Me with the evil stepmother at Cinderella |
And finally, me with the princess herself, Cinderella (from Cinderella, obviously) |
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