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Don't dream it, be it.

— Frankie • The Rocky Horror Picture Show

A small wooden ladder leans against a cardboard crescent moon with a brass compass at its base, in navy and saffron tones.
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The command closes the distance between imagining a possibility and inhabiting it. Dreaming is treated as a starting point that needs to become action or identity. Its force comes from that abrupt shift: what matters is allowing the imagined life to change how one actually lives.

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