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"   Kat Graham plays a bitchin&amp;#039; witch on The Vampire Diaries\u2014and she&amp;#039;s all about girl power in real life, too.  Though her new jam, &amp;quot;Wanna Say,&amp;quot; is a love song, Kat tells Cosmopolitan.com: &amp;quot;I have more of a desire to write songs about being an independent woman than being in love, songs about getting up and moving on even if I have a broken heart. &amp;#039;Wanna Say&amp;#039; is one of the few love songs I&amp;#039;ve ever done.&amp;quot; Romance has to be the brain, though, as Kat is reportedly engaged to boyfriend Cottrell Guidry. Though she&amp;#039;s hush-hush about potential wedding plans, Kat says she wasn&amp;#039;t always so lucky in love. &amp;quot;You really have to find your match and I&amp;#039;m fortunate to have found mine,&amp;quot; she told us. &amp;quot;Before this, I was with someone who was really competitive with me and even though he was one of the great loves of my life, it was becoming a fight to the finish. It&amp;#039;s trial and error out there\u2014you don&amp;#039;t know what you want until you get what you don&amp;#039;t want.&amp;quot; Like her badass on-screen witch Bonnie, Kat says she&amp;#039;s all about female empowerment\u2014for herself and her fans.  &amp;quot;I love playing a character that gives girls a sense of conviction,&amp;quot; she said. &amp;quot;There was a time when men thought it was sexy to have a housewife waiting for him to come home from work in her slippers, but in modern society, I think an independent woman is even more sexy.&amp;quot; We couldn&amp;#039;t agree more. Go behind the scenes on Kat&amp;#039;s &amp;quot;Wanna Say&amp;quot; video here:       Follow Michelle on Twitter. "^^<http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#string>
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