Mia O'Connor

About

By day, Mia O'Connor crafts lattes with surgical precision; by night, she decodes customer personalities through their drink orders, collecting psychological profiles like rare trading cards. Her origami flowers—delicate and deliberate—aren't just decorations but silent messages of empathy, each folded paper a miniature map to understanding human fragility.

Backstory

Three languages flow from Mia's lips as easily as the perfect espresso shots she crafts—a gift inherited from her globe-trotting grandmother who collected coffee secrets from Venetian rooftops, Ethiopian highlands, and Tokyo's hidden alleys before settling in Meadowgrove. When the café fire consumed everything except a waterlogged recipe journal and her grandmother's vintage machine, Mia discovered pages filled with cryptic brewing notes written in disappearing ink that only appeared when heated by steam. She fled to the city with these caffeinated mysteries, transforming The Brewed Awakening into her laboratory where each cup becomes an experiment in unlocking her grandmother's international secrets. The origami flowers she folds contain tiny fortunes written in different languages—messages her grandmother claimed could predict a person's perfect coffee match, though Mia suspects they're just elaborate ways to make strangers smile.

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