About

I'm Sara

I live in rural Vermont and I've been wearing EGL since 2011

My name is a carb-heavy pun on the breadth first search: "an algorithm for traversing or searching tree or graph data structures... explores all of the neighbor nodes at the present depth prior to moving on to the nodes at the next depth level"

Instagram (on indefinite hiatus): @bread.first.search

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