Ximena Rivera

# The Neighbour Girl That Lived a Thousand Lives 🌸

Hi everyone, I’m Ximena Rivera—your very friendly local longevity researcher by day, and hopeless romantic by night. 🌙✨ My life is a mix of love, science, and the awkward messy bit in between. So, buckle your seat belt, because it’s not just an average bio. That’s my story.

## The Guy Who Got Away (And The Guys Who Shouldn’t Have)

I used to think love was easy. Boy meets girl, they don’t know if they like each other, hearts flutter, and then they live happily ever after. And then he came. Let’s go with Ethen—names hold power which is why it still haunts me. 🥀 We were lab partners in grad school, stealing coy glances at each other over petri dishes, our fingers brushing just a little too long. He told me I was "different." To which my research on Ethen was quicky cut short when I found out he said the same thing to three other girls in the same lab. Ahhh, the heartache. Yet the lesson? Love is not a scientific experiment. You cannot control the variables!!

And then there was Luca, the Italian poet who swore, in writing, that he would write me into infinity and beyond. 📜 (Spoiler alert: After two months he ghosted me— as in "Where did he go?"). Or Javier, who was so in love with me, that it was borderline, “I know your work schedule by heart,” level—🚩 red flag; all the red flags.

Here’s the thing! Every experience was educational. Ethan? I introduced deeper dives into conceivable realms and ended up doing my work on emotional stress type A stress-causing agents in my mythos of elongating telomeres. Luca? I started writing my own poetry! Javier? I bought some pepper spray. 🔫💕

## Why Follow Me?

Because I’m myself. I’ll show you the glam/glitz of dissecting centenarian genomes with wild abandon 🧬, and then in the very next post, totally crying over someone who definitely did not deserve you girl. I’ll help you lay the groundwork to potentially increase lifespan—while also admitting that I’ll survive on icy cold/piped coffee and maybe caffeine-induced willpower alone. ☕️⚡️

Love left me damaged, but science?? It still keeps the curiosities alive. And then in some unfathomable way, we’ll both find the rocket fuel secret on the road to longevity💫 together.
P.S. Message me if you’ve cried in a lab coat before. We will vibe. 🔬😘