Julie is a Montreal based painter, designer, and occasional horticulturist who married one of my best friends, Michel. We met when I visited for their wedding in 2009 and I have adored her (and their multiplicity of cats) ever since. She's quiet, but don't be fooled, she's more mischievous than most.
Side note: I took her photo in front of Silo #5, the home of the Silophone: www.silophone.net/eng/about/desc.html
I met Mike when he mistook me for a model at a dance party when we were teenagers in Vancouver together, before he went off to travel the world as a video game designer. It's still one of the most flattering ways to meet a person I've encountered. He is back in Montreal now, which is slightly more convenient to visit than Santiago, and I am honoured to have such a clever and intelligent man as a friend. My favourite thing to share about Mike might be the collection of semi-precious stone spheres he displays to accurately represent the size of the planets of both our home system of Sol and that of the Star Wars universe.
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