Rukiye Vilja grew up in Springdale, Utah. A gifted musician, she decided to give up a career in music in order to pursue something a little more lucrative, namely philosophy. However, her deep love for and knowledge of music never truly left her, and she has leveraged her talents to become an amateur writer. Nearly famous titles of hers include “Changing the key: Re-thinking how we re-think our lives” and “Syncopated Triplets: Using Life’s Rule of Threes to Get you off the downbeat”. Although her books allow her to express her creativity and philosophical thought, they don’t pay the bills, and she has been forced to get a job at the local gift shop in order to pay rent on her apartment. (make a job about getting her car repossessed). Today she lives outside Chicago and she likes to quip that she doesn’t regret anything in life, except her career path, her childhood and 90% of the decisions she has made.

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