The princesses were a given. The rockstars weren’t all that surprising. What wasn’t expected at the Halloween party for all the budding little gymnasts that fall day was the sheepdog. Brenly was the sheepdog. She was the only sheepdog that year. Probably the only sheepdog ever at that gymnastics center. 

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That is just who Brenly is. While so many of us grew up trying to fit in with the crowd, Brenly decided to be her own crowd. 

Consider her approach to student body elections in middle school. On election day, while her opponents were vying to be the most popular, Brenly strutted through the front doors of the school as a walking billboard. A giant poster board in the front with her name on it, a giant poster board in the back, also with her name on it, straps connecting them over her shoulders. A veritable Brenly sandwich. Unfortunately, she lost. 

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Or consider her choice of a job in college. While her classmates were working in traditional jobs, or not working, there was Brenly in her hazmat suit. Sorting garbage from on-campus trash cans. It was part of a professor’s research project. And Brenly loved the job.

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Later, she became a lawyer. But will you find her in the courtroom or the executive boardroom, doing typical lawyering things? Of course not. She tried that for a bit but decided to go a different route. Decided to work in bar prep instead. Not preparing bars, mind you, preparing budding lawyers to take the bar exam. Which is also not about bars. It’s about laws. 

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It was around this time of career change that she found herself walking the streets of Berkeley, California one evening. She came upon what she thought was a large dog. With the permission of the dog’s owner, she began petting it. The gentle animal stood obediently as she stroked its soft fur. As she turned to leave, the owner mentioned in passing that this was no normal dog. This was a wolf. 

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Why had the wolf been so gentle with Brenly? It’s simple. A wolf knows better than to mess with a sheepdog.

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Pictured is Brenly, who lives in Indianapolis, wearing the Margaret design.

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