“Self-consciousness is bogus.  I don’t like my name right now, just because it doesn’t sound like other people’s names…Oh, you’re going to hate this, but I have something to show you, ‘kay?  I’m such a white girl.  I got a Stanley.  My parents took me in REI four or five months ago, I chose a Stanley.  I could have gotten a brand new Hydroflask, I could have gotten a new Owala bottle, I could have gotten a Nalgene for goodness sakes!  And I got a Stanley.  I don't want to get rid of it, ‘cause it was really expensive.  It's terrible. It leaks. It's big, and I have to keep it upright all the time.  The one thing it's great for is carrying it around.  It's a statement, people see me with a Stanley, ‘Oh she's a Stanley girl.’  It means I fit in with the girls at my school.  When I go to school they’re suddenly nice to me, it is very weird, but at least they like me.” (LJA, Santa Fe, NM)