My Life As A Stori

Okay, so for all you spelling Nazis, I did not misspell the title of my blog.  I’m actually using a rather clever double-meaning by playing on the word, “story.” (See, I know how to spell it right!)  Allow me to explain:

First of all, I was born with the rather lengthy name of Victoria Franchesca Pertenelli.  Yes, my family is Italian, and no, we’re not associated with the mob in any way.  In fact, I couldn’t be any further from mob activity even if I wanted to be, being as how I live in Nebraska.  Anyway, back to my point - since my name is so long, people around town just started calling me Tori.  Now, since I live in a rather small town where everyone knows everyone else, pretty much the entire population got to know me as the type who’d rather keep her face buried in a book than socialize.  Hence, they decided to turn my nickname into a sort of pun and added an “S” to the beginning, calling me Stori, appropriately.  There you go - now you know why I spelled the word that way.

Moving on to reason number two, where I think pretty much anyone can appreciate the irony of the situation compared to my nickname.  You’ve all read The Neverending Story, right?  Wait, most of you probably haven’t, but I’m sure pretty much everyone has seen the movie - you know, the one where the kid buys this book, starts reading it, and becomes intertwined with the story by the time it ends?  It turned out he was an important character to the story the whole time, right?  He got to call the shots, save the story world, blah, blah, blah.  Well, I’m not as lucky as Bastian got to be.  I don’t get to call the shots, I don’t get to save the world, I can’t come and go into the story as I please.  Me, I’m just stuck, day in and day out, living my life how other people write it.  In fact, I’m only writing this blog right now because someone shoved a piece of paper in front of my face saying “I’m writing my daily blog about my life.”  Basically, my life as it stands, literally is a story where I act out the parts that other people created for me… and that pretty much sums up the second reason for my blog title.

Have I lost you yet?  I guess I really should start from the beginning, though that doesn’t really fall into the “introduction” category so much.  I’ll start it tomorrow.  For now, just know that my name is Stori and that this blog will be a telling of how my life plays out as, well, a story.

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