I remember the first time I told my dad I wanted to go to Hawaii. I was 11 and I had just seen Rip Girls, the Disney movie about a girl who travels to Hawaii for the first time and learns to surf. I was a lanky preteen from Queens who had fallen down the stairs and broken both of my arms a year prior, but still, I thought I was destined to become a surfer.

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