00:00My name is Kimberly Towns and I'm originally from Charles City, Virginia. When I choose a subject
00:11to film or a story to film, I'm looking for a challenge. I want something that takes me out
00:17of my comfort zone. I want something that's going to make me have to study and research
00:23and engross myself in another world and learn. It's a chance to live vicariously
00:29and so I'm hoping that I find and choose stories that allow me to do that.
00:35Kycera inspires me to live passionately. She is a huge reminder to me of what being a young
00:46girl full of dreams was like. She reminds me of innocence and it was a chance to go back
00:56and embrace that. When she was at the age of two, she stopped speaking and she was diagnosed
01:04with autism and so to watch her go from someone who didn't speak to someone who sings opera
01:11and as a synchronized swimmer, I think it's pretty amazing and to just watch her just
01:16want to live life so fully I think is beautiful and it just reminds me. Every time I see her
01:23I say no excuses. When I first met Kycera, I was surprised at just how sweet and funny she
01:30was. She was really a lot of fun and as I started hanging out with the family and I became sort
01:38of the family chauffeur at some point and and I remember one day after Girl Scouts just hanging
01:44out with her in the car eating Girl Scout cookies and just giggling about college and boys and life
01:52and freedom and it was just a refreshing time and I think I was surprised that the project would take
02:00a journey like that.
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