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Growing up I was *obsessed* with Ancient Egypt and then went through a natural disasters phase (volcanoes, earthquakes, tornados, tsunami, etc.)

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whoever said they were a romanov family girly awakened something in me that had been sleeping for a long time. i personally thought i could solve the mystery surrounding that family

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as a french reader, I had a good laugh reading Bel's "je nais se quois" ! I think what she was trying to say was "je ne sais quoi" ? but honestly, I like Bel's version better lol

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I am and forever will be a Titanic gorl. I will never go on a cruise ship thanks to how much I research I did as a child :p

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I was def obsessed with Marilyn Monroe, Amelia Earhart and the Bermuda Triangle because I had insomnia and watched a lot of Unsolved Mysteries.

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I was shuffled into the school cafeteria as a kid to watch the Challenger space shuttle explode and became unusually obsessed with NASA and space travel.

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(and I was a WWI / WWII girl, and obsessed with natural disasters as well)

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i was an extinction of the dinosaurs girly πŸ’…πŸΌ

(got 1975 tickets for sydney today eek!!)

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i was a russian revolution girlie after reading a book called natasha’s will about a grandmother’s will going missing from the revolution

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please can we see the treehouse! or at a least a description! i’m jealous already

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I was obsessed with ghosts/ghost stories, and in fifth grade (age 10/11ish I think) I convinced a bunch of girls in my class that I could see ghosts and I would lead them around the playground at recess pointing out ghosts I could see/suspicious wisps that might be ghosts and they all played along for MONTHS until I got bored of it and came clean that I had been faking it the whole time and they were relieved bc they thought I could actually see them and were pretending bc they wanted to seem cool (which is so weird bc I was NOT cool at all....) but anyways, I used to research haunted places and famous ghosts and make little reports on them for no one but myself. what an (iconic) weirdo!!!

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This is more recent but I’m an MH370 pal :)

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For some reason I was really into the Irish Potato Famine and read multiple historical fiction books about it.

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I was definitely and Ancient Greece/Greek mythology girlie. I also had a hyper fixation on WWII, but just the European side of it. Also when I was in like 4th grade I became a MAJOR weather girlie. I absolutely loved the weather and how it worked.

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I was obsessed with the portugues man of war jellyfish and the deaths related to it. It’s now the reason my biggest fear is jellyfish

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At first I was like nah, I was not obsessing over anything, BUT then I remembered my major fixation on the Romanovs when I was like 12. The obsession spiked when I went to St. Petersburg and visited all their houses. God! It was amazing. Love this dynasty

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