What are you?

Title: What are you?

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## – To define is to limit.

Why the most interesting people resist being put in a box.

What are you? It seems like a simple question. The kind that should have a simple answer. A job title, a background, a set of interests, a category that locates you in a way the other person can understand and file away. People ask it constantly and expect something neat in return.

But the honest answer is always more complicated tha