And now for something heartfelt..

Raymi,

what’s up? how do you do?

I made the trip to calgary for a shoot and the photographer didn’t call me back, so I’ve got a more attractive one lined up for sept. might be trouble..hah

So, I was feeling pretty musically inspired one day and in search of finding a used trumpet for sale I came across your cunt trumpet article. It’s funny because when I saw the name “raymi” I pictured you as the chick off queer tv.. hah or maybe it wasn’t that show. She was a lesbian brown girl off a toronto sex show or something. You probably know who I’m talking about.. haha anyway, then I saw your tits on your blog and I was surprised for some reason.

Anyway, I was like 18 or 19 and going through the what am I doing with my life stage. I was going to school for shit I didn’t want to do but I didn’t know any better because I was a nervous and confused stoner when I was in highschool and still then, well I stoped smoking weed. The truth is, I hadn’t met any girls who were expressive, or creative the way I was. I have always been the one who upstages everyone, whos friends call crazy and say stupid shit like “you’re unique”, and highschool kids loved me but even with my friends I felt like no one could match me, and that I was making myself more boring than I wanted to be. anyway, at that point in time drinking my face off, making out with the whole town, skipping class to sew and reading
your blog helped put my head on straight. In some ways i’m not trying to feed you a success story, but at the same time, that’s really what it is. I’ve gotten my shit together, and reading your blog was just there on the side to remind me why I was doing it.

In you I recognized qualities that I saw in myself. your spazz tactics, an imagination that anilates everything in it’s path, And innovation. a fucking ingenious way of creating your own stardom. And you know some people hate you, but there are so many more that respect you for doing your own thing. Plus you’re a babe.hah.

I think people just want to identify with other people. I felt like I could
do that with you, or the you that I know through your blog. I want to
create something that people can identify with, and that’s where I came up
with the label “vixengrity” Its an adjective for an attitude. It’s for women
who are doing their own thing, but who come from a common ground, of being
crazy, or eccentric, or just imaginative and a show stealer. The name is
meant to represent women like you and like me, who are powerful and sassy
and but so much more. The clothing fits the name.

who knows you might think my clothing is fucking hideous, but it would mean a lot to me if u would do a shoot with me because in my eyes you hold the name “vixengrity” so well.

I’m still pulling my shit together and i’m planning to take a trip to Europe in the fall before I charge into the whole starting you’re own business thing full throttle. So i’m talking a bit farther in the future..

The hassle I’ve been having from quitting that job just drove me to email you because I quit it so I could focus on developing vixengrity and I felt it was time to say thank you for being a part of my inspiration.

Bronwyn
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