Once upon a time, on August 15, 2003, a baby girl was born into the world at Manhattan, New York City. That 's me, the author, Yanyao Shi. I grew up in an apartment of a household of 5 people, my older sister, my younger brother, my mom ,my dad, and me. My siblings are I extremely close, always telling each other our secrets, fooling and joking arounds, and defending each other from others. But we were too close to my mom 's liking. She claims we talk too much. Ever since I was a child I always looked up to my sister because she always made my parents proud. I did what she did and followed her footsteps academically. I forced myself to want to become a doctor but somewhere deep in my heart I disliked the idea of studying science. It wasn