NATALIJA UGRINA

Standing in front of the original "Drink Dr Pepper" painted wall at the Dr Pepper Museum in Waco, Texas — holding America's oldest soda for the very first time. Waco, Texas was never on my radar for the reasons most people visit it. I wasn't coming for Magnolia Market or Chip and Joanna Gaines. I came because of one of the darkest and most disturbing stories in modern American history — the Branch Davidian siege of 1993, the 51-day standoff at Mount Carmel that ended in fire