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My name is Lizz Daley.

Born in 1981 to a middle class couple in Reno, Nevada, I was destined for greatness. Against my fevered suggestions, my parents decided to continue pro-creating and shot out 3 more abominations. Being the oldest, I was tasked with showing them the ways of the world. While very stupid children, my siblings could at least follow orders and I began to teach them everything I knew, which was an awful lot and more than they know now.

At 14 my parents uprooted me from my entire existence. Friends, family, wildly unhealthy Middle School relationships were all abandoned to come to a place where “everyone was Mormon.” Being a Mormon myself, had no bearing on this observation. I was all the hurt and hatefulness an angsty teenager can dish out. I cried, I lamented and I got over it, eventually.

I found my saving grace in dance, and joined the Dance Company at Davis High School. I made lasting friendships with people that I spent entirely too much time with. I graduated in 2000 as Generation X and I worshipped the Spice Girls, Angelina Jolie and bad news boyfriends. I majored in Modern Dance at the University of Utah for a full school year before realizing that being a dancer severely limited my career options. Promptly after stating that I was never getting married because I had “entirely too much to do,” I met my husband Nick and we were married in 4 months.

Against all odds, we are currently still married, sometimes happily and sometimes not. We have 2 kids, Asher and Emery, who we put up with, while we longingly remember our childless days. Somewhere around 2009, I started face painting.