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In 1999, Lisa and I saw the movie The Matrix. It’s the story of Neo, a computer programmer, who learns that the world he lives in is nothing but an illusion created by computers to subdue people. Throughout the course of the movie, he fights, with the help of others, to free himself from this web of deceit, called “The Matrix,” and live free in a true reality. Science fiction isn’t really our thing, but for some reason the film haunted us. It had nothing to do with its elaborately choreographed fight scenes and cutting-edge special effects. It was that Lisa and I had each been brought up feeling as if our lives were predetermined, or programmed for us, and we’d both always felt frustrated by the pressure to conform. We just couldn’t shake the feeling that we were, in a sense, in our own matrix, and both of us felt the urge to break free.

I had been that kid in class who maddeningly questioned everything my teacher (and my parents, for that matter) said. Never content with simply doing what I was told and accepting the boundaries set for me, I