1094A little reluctant to be photographed at first, she eventually agreed and chose this as her SOTM. She said she had uprooted her life from the rural Midwest, fulfilling her dream of starting a new job in New York City, just a few days before this photograph was taken on a sunny day in Central Park.

Seeing the anxious look on her face, her boyfriend had told her these words late one night, a short time after her arrival in the Big Apple.