Origin: Phillipines > Chicago > Bay Area > SoCal?
Notes: Pure air, All love and light
Body: Balanced and grounded but floats when she’s excited.
Finish: Lingers.

The things I like (love) about you:

• I like how you make whatever you wear yours, even if it’s my clothing. Like how you curl up the sleeves on a sweatshirt or tee

• I like how you greet the home every time you come over 

• I like how you can be deeply independent but still want partnership 

• I like how you name trees and plants in the neighborhood, like LeeAnne and Cate and Am 

• I like how nurturing and patient you are when I’m sick and a baby 

• I like how you like playing house with me and you play it so well 

• I like how important it is to you that we fast and pray together every Monday 

• I like how you get impatient when you decide to do something, like our future plans 

• I like how guttural your laugh is when you think something is funny 

• I like how you use music to process emotions just like me 

• I like how you deeply you believe in fate but also in personal agency 

• I like empathetic you are to strangers 

• I like how our eating and drinking habits have begun to mirror one another 

• I like how you are my twin in so many weird and peculiar and beautiful ways that only you and I are able to see 

• I like how you buy matching things for us in pairs, like our slippers or mugs 

• I like how structured and unstructured, disciplined and undisciplined, your life is all at the same time 

• I like how you always make time to FT your mom 

• I like that you make me pull cards and drink from Shasta water and involve me in your inner world 

• I like how you’ve created a family of friends and how loyal you are to them 

• I like how your voice goes 10 octaves higher when you talk to cats and little children and I like how cats and children naturally love you  

• I like how you are so insanely intelligent and challenge my thinking in so many ways you don’t know 

• I like how introspective you are and how well you know yourself and your needs 

• I like how you blend my altar with your own spiritual elements 

• I like how you interact with the world with ease and confidence, with your work colleagues and clients and friends and Baz and Kaiden and strangers and everyone else you encounter 

• I like how seriously you take your work, like worrying over a meeting that two union presidents won’t attend

• I like (but actually love) how you make up hilarious reframed acronyms like RIF’in 

• I like how you stand up to me even when I can be mean 

• I like how you force me to take cheesy pictures in front of my childhood library or playground 

• I like how you question everything and never take things at face value  

• I like how you don’t like going to the gym because of the sensory overload but you still go with me because it’s us spending time together 

• I like how important it is to you that we spend time together 

• I like your courage in making bold decisions like moving to the Bay Area or socal 

• I like your curiosity to travel and learn new things like surfing 

• I like the way you smell, doesn’t matter if you’re dirty or clean 

• I like how endearing it is that your mom is so religious and you are equally spiritual 

• I like the way you sing to yourself when you think no one is listening 

• I like how your mind is a third logic, a third emotion and a third poetry 

• I like how sturdy your insides are and soft your outsides are 

• I like how one of your eyes hangs lower than the other 

• I like how you can have the biggest, heartiest dinner and still be down for breakfast 

• I like how you say prayers to unhoused people on rainy Mondays 

• I like how protective you are of your mom 

• I like that you never forget a face 

• I like that you believe in fairness in the world, even if it costs you 

• I like how you never forget the important things and are forgetful of everything else