I’ve been asked many times, “what has been your biggest regret?” Had you asked me this four years ago, I would have said, “having the misfortune of falling in love because with that misfortune came a disillusioned future full of wonderful promises, a partner in crime and daily doses of forget me nots.” Ask me today and I will tell you, “I have no regrets.”

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With pain, comes growth. Through failure, comes success. What I used to consider a “misfortune” allowed me to emerge into a new person with a fresh perspective on life; that nothing is guaranteed, seize the moment and just go with the flow.

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Of all the years of this publication, this one has been by far the best! Not because it was the easiest (in fact, I think every year gets harder and harder) but because of two things: imposters and scammers. This year, there have been five imposter Instagram accounts (going by some variation of miamivibes.mag) who have stolen our logo and even some of our content. At first, I was furious, but then I thought, “hey, we’re so cool that people feel the need to impersonate us to be able to have a worthy presence on social media.” So flattering!

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It gets better. For the past three months we have fallen victim to floating job scams claiming that we are offering job opportunities to photographers to shoot in Cali, New York, Nevada and many other states. Again, this made my blood boil. But something great