Happy Birthday, Clare!

When I was looking for a picture of you to post, this one caught my eye because of something Lisette recounted to me more than once:
You were in college or had just graduated when you and Lisette spent an afternoon at the mall.
"She had her hair in a ponytail and was wearing jeans, a t-shirt and a baseball cap", was how Lisette described you. It was the simplicity of your garb, especially the baseball cap, combined with how you carried yourself - and I wish I could remember the exact words Lisette used - that so impressed her. She would go on to say that you looked "perfect" and that she envied your self confidence, that she wanted to one day "be like Clare walking in the mall that day".
I don't know about you and baseball hats but I do remember that for a while you became quite attached to the red cap you're wearing in this picture.
Even back then, you carried yourself well.