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Anya's Photos of the Day
A first-person account of recovery from a serious traumatic brain injury


Fogo with Hannah
Oct. 5, 2022: I’m kind of confused today. I lost track of a lot of things, nothing to do with hosting though. It was a hella slow night....

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Oct 16, 20222 min read


Hannah, and Fogo with Hannah and Amerti
Oct. 4, 2022: I had two decent parts of my day today, both of which are here. I met up with Hannah for lunch at Dominguez and took my...

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Oct 16, 20221 min read


Nico's with Natalie
Oct. 3, 2022: I had a decent day today because I met up with Natalie at Nico’s tacos. We had margaritas and tacos. We each had a...

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Backyard with Papa
Oct. 2, 2022: I had a terrible day today. I volunteered at the Medtronic marathon with mom in the morning. Then we went back to mom’s...

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Fogo with Hannah, Amerti and Brenda
Oct. 1, 2022: I remembered to take a photo today fairly early in the day. It’s of all the hostesses. Me and Amerti and Brenda and the...

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Fogo with Brenda
Sept. 30, 2022: Well tonight I almost forgot to take a photo for photo of the day, but at the very end after I’d clocked out I did with...

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Fogo with Amerti and Maria, Casey and Marlon
Sept. 29, 2022: Well today I didn’t take any photos during my morning shift. I did work this morning though, El had asked me to come in...

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Hyland with Peter
Sept. 23, 2022: This is just my selfie with Peter from today. I also did one at Fogo later, where I wrote down a lot of Fogo stuff. It’s...

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Fogo with Evette, Grace and Maria
Sept. 23, 2022: Grace is a server whose name I’ve seen a couple times but I’ve never put to a face, so I took this photo just so I would...

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Fogo with Ava and Amerti
Sept. 21, 2022: Today I worked at Fogo and I remembered to take a photo for the photo of the day before it got busy. There were about...

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Fogo with Brenda
Sept. 20, 2022: Brenda is probably my favorite hostess at Fogo. Worked with her tonight, and took a photo with her because of that. I...

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Nordhaus with mom
Sept. 19, 2022: Today I actually have my mom in one of my photos of the day. She moved into Nordhaus, which is kind of crazy. This is...

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Ras with Izaak
Sept. 18, 2022: Today I forgot to take a photo with Hannah at Momo, again. Also forgot to take a photo of her at Nolo’s the other day,...

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Fogo with Brenda, Diane, and Israel
Sept. 16, 2022: Today I forgot to take a selfie with Hannah when we went to Nolo’s this morning. Too bad. Papa said he hopes it’s the...

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Fogo with Amerti, again
Sept. 15, 2022: Took another Be Real selfie with Amerti today. Posted it too. Glad the hostess curtains are in the background. Today we...

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Fogo with Amerti
Sept. 14, 2022: Today at Fogo I worked with Amerti and Israel and Ava. I left earliest. Fernando was managing. I’m trying to remember...

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Still not trash
Sept. 14, 2022: These are my photos with Liam and Ruby. We went out for lunch at Longfellow Diner, which I remembered. It was nice to...

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Fogo with Nikki and Brenda
Sept. 13, 2022: Well today at Fogo, Diane didn’t come in for her night shift or her morning shift, so it was just me and Brenda, and...

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Not even close to trash
Sept. 12, 2022: I met up with Hakan from ValleyFair today. We went to Chimborazo and I told him literally everything. I even randomly...

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Fire with Liam and Alex and Lilly
Sept. 11, 2022: This is my second photo of the day for today. Today I had a good time with Liam and Alex and Lily. I feel like I wrote...

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Oct 16, 20221 min read
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