“Are you Jennifer?” she said, not having seen me in more than 7 months. She sized me up and down, standing outside the noisy Disney store. “Did you lose weight?”

I laughed and said no, thinking how the last half year has influenced and changed me. When I first met her, I was wearing my formal pants and that shirt I thought was business-like. And shoes that made me walk funny. Today, I was wearing the Papaya top over a dark tank top underneath my leather jacket with that forest green cropped pants. Topped with my black flats that still made me walk funny because they were new.