[color=CC66FF][b]Name:[/b][/color] Samira Najani

[color=CC66FF][b]Age:[/b][/color] 20

[color=CC66FF][b]Appearance:[/b][/color] 
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Samira is of Iranian descent and has inherited some of their features. Dark hair and olive skin; almond-shaped hazel eyes; thick, striking eyebrows. Her small frame is thin with subtle curves. While she loves and appreciates fashionable clothes, she doesn't have the money to invest in them. As such, Samira is typically dressed in her university sweats. When she fell asleep that one night in 2004, Samira was wearing a TSU sweater, pajama pants and wool socks...

[color=CC66FF][b]Occupation:[/b][/color] Samira is a waitress at an upscale, American-style steakhouse restaurant.

[color=CC66FF][b]History:[/b][/color] Samira was born in Chicago, Illinois, in 1984, the daughter of first-generation immigrants from Iran. In 1996 her family moved to Nashville, Tennessee, where she lived out her high school days like most kids: listening to grunge music and bubble gum-pop, watching [i]Seinfeld[/i] and [i]Buffy the Vampire Slayer[/i], eating Cinnamon Toast Crunch and Toaster Strudels. 

After graduating high school in 2002, Samira enrolled into a local university, though she has yet to declare a major. To help pay for school expenses, she applied for a job as a waitress working in a local upscale restaurant called [i]B. Elliot's[/i] and has been working there for two years. 

One night in 2004, after a long, exhausting Friday night shift, Samira collapsed on her bed and drifted off to sleep...

[color=CC66FF][b]Personality:[/b][/color] Having struggled all her life with identity, Samira is just beginning to articulate the conflicts within herself; being an United States citizen with former Iranian parents; having spent the first half of her life in a big city surrounded by ethnic diversity and being "normal," then coming to Nashville where she was suddenly in an extreme minority and becoming "exotic." Because she hasn't quite settled into who she is exactly, she often questions her feelings and actions. 

Samira is a goofball and gravitates to those who can reciprocate her silliness. She's young and naive and ignorant like most twenty year olds, but she has a mind with an intellectual bent, and responds well to people who demonstrate perspective and intelligence. She has a fear of being abandoned, a fear that often displays itself through preemptively pushing people away. Samira is also quite stubborn, and usually won't back down from a argument even when she really should. 

She's not entirely sure what she wants out of life yet, but she is determined to find it.