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[div style="0px; width:400px; height:auto; text-align: justify; font-size: 9pt; line-height:13px;"]anika van leeuwenhoek  and as one chapter ends, another chapter begins. now my life revolves around cliches i hated as a kid.
 anika johanna van leeuwenhoek was born to varshalla sinh and hetal kumar on the thirtieth of october in 1996 in ahmedabad, gujarat, but at the age of six months, she was adopted by fenna and bastiaan van leeuwenhoek and moved to quebec city, canada. her adopted parents own a chain of luxury hotels across canada and europe, though the flagship hotel is located in quebec. anika only has one other sibling, a younger brother named adriaan who was born about four years after she was adopted.
 she swears that one of the best things about having been adopted was adriaan. she may roast him every single day of his life, but he is, and always will be, her baby brother. he plays the cello, and whenever he plays with the quebec symphony orchestra, she drops whatever she's doing to come and see him, and whenever he's on break from school, he stays with her in new york city. this is all worded so awfully but i just want y'all to know that they're very close and have the most iconic family dynamic since the kahales and that's the tea.
 she speaks three languages  dutch, french, and english  but only uses them depending on where she is. rarely does she speak anything but dutch when she's with her parents, who only speak dutch and french, but when she's in the states for school, she just uses english. when adriaan comes to visit, it's a different story, as the two go back and forth between all three languages as they please.
 her style isn't even anything specific. for the most part, it's expensive shoes and coats paired with thrift store jeans and tees. there are times where just her pants and shoes cost about $2,000, and other times where her entire outfit was about $40. at this point, she might as well be sponsored by cheap monday, as most of her shirts and jeans come from there. it's one of the brands she discovered when she moved to new york, and she's been in love ever since.
 growing up dutch-canadian instead of gujarati has been something she's thought about a ton. her parents have been pretty good at keeping her connected to her birth culture but two dutch-born canadians can only do so much. it hasn't caused any kind of major identity crisis, because at this point, she sees herself as a gujarati dutch-canadian, and that's just that on that.
 she's studying film at new york university and her plan is to be a director, but if that doesn't work out, she doesn't have to worry too much, as her and adriaan will inherit the family business. she'd prefer not to have to fall back on her parents, though, so she's been working her ass off. she's got one credit under her belt, a short film about her friend marena, a dancer with american ballet theatre, and it's been praised pretty heavily by critics.
 her parents bought her an apartment in greenwich once she finished her freshman year. she lives with three of her friends from school, since there's five bedrooms, and of course adriaan has his own room. she even adopted a dog a few months after she moved in. she thinks of rini as the closest she'll get to having a kid, which is fine by her.
 hands down, her favorite musical artist is hozier. she's gone to see him every time he's performed in new york or in quebec, and she got a record player just to play his self-titled album on vinyl. now she's just "waiting for andrew to come back from the forest" and release his second album, and it's been absolutely killing her, but at least she's got beyoncé to pull her through.
 one of her roommates plays soccer, and he's always trying to get her to work out with him. she does say yes to him about every six months, but only because she forgets how bad it was the last time they went to the gym together. she can barely get through half of his workout routine, but she pulls through because she'll be damned if she lets this boy best her. it always backfires, because she's sore for two weeks afterwards, no matter how many epsom salt baths and ibuprofen she takes.
 she's the only one who adriaan's come out to. he did it as they were watching elf in her apartment a week before christmas and his seventeenth birthday, and it wasn't as much of a shock to her as he thought it would be. he'd prepared an entire speech and explanation, thinking she'd be shocked, but after he'd finished, all she did was ruffle his hair and say "ik hou van je, adi. pass the popcorn."
 her one guilt pleasure are the austin powers movies. she thinks they're the absolute funniest thing out there and she's wrong, but that doesn't stop her from watching them any time she gets a chance.
[div style="0px; width:400px; height:auto; text-align: justify; font-size: 9pt; line-height:13px;"]anika van leeuwenhoek  and as one chapter ends, another chapter begins. now my life revolves around cliches i hated as a kid.
 anika johanna van leeuwenhoek was born to varshalla sinh and hetal kumar on the thirtieth of october in 1996 in ahmedabad, gujarat, but at the age of six months, she was adopted by fenna and bastiaan van leeuwenhoek and moved to quebec city, canada. her adopted parents own a chain of luxury hotels across canada and europe, though the flagship hotel is located in quebec. anika only has one other sibling, a younger brother named adriaan who was born about four years after she was adopted.
 she swears that one of the best things about having been adopted was adriaan. she may roast him every single day of his life, but he is, and always will be, her baby brother. he plays the cello, and whenever he plays with the quebec symphony orchestra, she drops whatever she's doing to come and see him, and whenever he's on break from school, he stays with her in new york city. this is all worded so awfully but i just want y'all to know that they're very close and have the most iconic family dynamic since the kahales and that's the tea.
 she speaks three languages  dutch, french, and english  but only uses them depending on where she is. rarely does she speak anything but dutch when she's with her parents, who only speak dutch and french, but when she's in the states for school, she just uses english. when adriaan comes to visit, it's a different story, as the two go back and forth between all three languages as they please.
 her style isn't even anything specific. for the most part, it's expensive shoes and coats paired with thrift store jeans and tees. there are times where just her pants and shoes cost about $2,000, and other times where her entire outfit was about $40. at this point, she might as well be sponsored by cheap monday, as most of her shirts and jeans come from there. it's one of the brands she discovered when she moved to new york, and she's been in love ever since.
 growing up dutch-canadian instead of gujarati has been something she's thought about a ton. her parents have been pretty good at keeping her connected to her birth culture but two dutch-born canadians can only do so much. it hasn't caused any kind of major identity crisis, because at this point, she sees herself as a gujarati dutch-canadian, and that's just that on that.
 she's studying film at new york university and her plan is to be a director, but if that doesn't work out, she doesn't have to worry too much, as her and adriaan will inherit the family business. she'd prefer not to have to fall back on her parents, though, so she's been working her ass off. she's got one credit under her belt, a short film about her friend marena, a dancer with american ballet theatre, and it's been praised pretty heavily by critics.
 her parents bought her an apartment in greenwich once she finished her freshman year. she lives with three of her friends from school, since there's five bedrooms, and of course adriaan has his own room. she even adopted a dog a few months after she moved in. she thinks of rini as the closest she'll get to having a kid, which is fine by her.
 hands down, her favorite musical artist is hozier. she's gone to see him every time he's performed in new york or in quebec, and she got a record player just to play his self-titled album on vinyl. now she's just "waiting for andrew to come back from the forest" and release his second album, and it's been absolutely killing her, but at least she's got beyoncé to pull her through.
 one of her roommates plays soccer, and he's always trying to get her to work out with him. she does say yes to him about every six months, but only because she forgets how bad it was the last time they went to the gym together. she can barely get through half of his workout routine, but she pulls through because she'll be damned if she lets this boy best her. it always backfires, because she's sore for two weeks afterwards, no matter how many epsom salt baths and ibuprofen she takes.
 she's the only one who adriaan's come out to. he did it as they were watching elf in her apartment a week before christmas and his seventeenth birthday, and it wasn't as much of a shock to her as he thought it would be. he'd prepared an entire speech and explanation, thinking she'd be shocked, but after he'd finished, all she did was ruffle his hair and say "ik hou van je, adi. pass the popcorn."
 her one guilt pleasure are the austin powers movies. she thinks they're the absolute funniest thing out there and she's wrong, but that doesn't stop her from watching them any time she gets a chance.
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