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DAWN BUTLER

When I was 16 I was quite a formidable character. I was a tomboy. I was into cars and engines. Anything my dad and my brothers were doing I was doing too. Everybody in my family drove so I wanted to be a driver. I was just into everything at 16, nothing fazed me. But I also always had FOMO, that fear of missing out.

Growing up with four brothers I knew from a very. Because if I didn’t, my brothers would laugh at me. I had to formulate my arguments before I made them, I had to dot the i’s and cross the t’s and show that I could stand up completely on my own. Never underestimate your upbringing or the influence people have in your life, and how they formulate how you approach a situation, how you act, how you talk. It was that upbringing that made me who I am now.

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