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And when my art teacher said that...

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I should continue on at a higher level
of art lessons...

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the Joint gave me money
for going to art school.

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And I told my aunt Margaret.

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So she promptly stopped me from going,
because she said,

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“All artists are starving,
except for a few.

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You have to be a business woman.

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So when you finish Grade 8,
you go and work with me.”

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So you can imagine how much
I felt badly because I loved art.

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And I wasn’t allowed to do any more art.

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I wasn’t allowed to be reading.

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I didn’t have any friends at school.

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And I felt totally devastated.

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So when the Joint offered
to have us taken to another place,

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to me that was a rescue,

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because I certainly didn’t want to be
selling dead chickens.