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I often share the story of my experiences with art and art making from when I was a kid.

And by my experiences, I mean, I hardly had any, with the exception of one pretty terrible art teacher when I was in middle school.

That art teacher was so bad, so demanding, that she took all the fun out of art.

And for me, someone who wasn't already all that invested in art, that was a big deal.

It turned me off of art even further than I already was, and that intensely

negative feeling stayed with me for almost a decade, all the way until I found myself against my

hopes in my very first art history class in college. The gist of this story is one that I think

many of us can understand, that a person, like an art

teacher, can pass through our lives, or it's an event, however, fleeting that occurs.

But then the ramifications of that person or that event can last for a long while, even decades.

Throw an important element into the mix, like a relationship,

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