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      <image:caption>"Count Your Blessings, Especially In Dark Times, Always Find Your Silver Lining, And Be Grateful, That Is POWER" Micron Pen, Colored Pencil</image:caption>
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      <image:caption>"To Fight Or To Flee, Be Scared But Be Brave Too, Stay The Course, And Just Keep Moving" Micron Pen, Marker</image:caption>
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      <image:caption>"World Peace I, Sto The Hateful Chaos, Bring Peace To Madness, Prosperity For All, I'm Tired Of All The Waring" Micron Pen, Marker</image:caption>
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      <image:caption>"Partnership, Companionship, Missing My Other Half, Missing My Love, But Being OK, Even When I'm Not" Micron Pen</image:caption>
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      <image:caption>"Passion Will Not Push, Me To Become Untrue, To Myself, It Will Always Flow Invited, With Honesty And Truth, That Anyone May Find A Home In, It Will Never Be Forced Again, Only Free, Flowing" Micron Pen, Marker</image:caption>
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      <image:caption>"All Our Trials, Tribulations, Let Us Find Comfort &amp; Strength, In Those That Love Us, Let Us Seek Them Out, Because We Need Them, And We Deserve To Let, Them Love Us, Allow Them To, Love Us Through, Our Pain, Amen" Micron Pen, Marker</image:caption>
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      <image:caption>"Finding Love For Self, Is A Journey, There Are Many Parts, Mentally I'm There, My Body, Deserves My Love, And Appreciation, Just As Much, It's Very Difficult, After Hating And Mistreating It, For So Long, But It's A Journey, I'm Undertaking" Micron Pen</image:caption>
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      <image:caption>"Self Pity, But Still Believing, I Will Prevail, Sad, That I Am, Not So Many Things, That I Wish, I Was, Some In My Control, Some Not, I'm Sad, And Disappointed, But Mostly Still Hopeful, Just Not All The Way. I'm Sad" Micron Pen</image:caption>
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      <image:caption>"The Story Of Who I Want To Be, Myself, Confidently, Unappolagetically, Wholeheartedly, All Of Me, Utterly, Completely, That's Who I Want To Be, The Story Of Me." Micron Pen, Marker</image:caption>
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      <image:caption>"You Don't Want, Sadness To Rule You, But You Are, Allowed To Feel, How You Feel, Pushing Away, Ignoring Big Feelings, Does Not Erase Them, It Makes Them Harder, To Face And To Process, One Day, One Way, You Have To. So Feel, You're Allowed To, It's OK, I Give Me Permission." Ebony Pencil</image:caption>
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      <image:caption>"Feeling My Feelings, That's My Goal, It's What I Want. But They Feel Broken. The Part That Feels, The Feelings, Feels Broken. To Be Strong Enough, To Fix The Feelings Feeler, So I Can Feel The Feelings, That Maybe, Broke It, I Am, That Strong, That Brave, I Want To Face, Myself." Micron Pen</image:caption>
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      <image:caption>"That Inner Peace, Or Inner Piece, I'm Looking, I'm Finding, It's Mine To Have, It Always Was, It Always Is, Just Remember, I've Always Been Whole." Micron Pen</image:caption>
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      <image:caption>"My Head My Heart My Stomach Loneliness and Sadness That's where it sits When it makes itself known Looking For Safety And Comfort Unsuccessfully This Hole can't be filled It has to heal Just Enough So I let it bd Let Myself Just Feel Just Be Patient And Loved For and By Me" 18x14, Acrylic, Modeling Paste on Canvas Panel</image:caption>
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      <image:caption>"Brave Enough To Try Something New Pushing Past The Fears By Trusting The Process Trusting Myself I'm Allowed To Be Excited By The Unknown Of The Outcome I Do Love Surprises." 18x14 Acrylic, Modeling Paste, Glass Beads on Stretched Canvas</image:caption>
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      <image:caption>"Drawing In Creativity and Welcoming It Any Way It Shows Up" 12x9 Acrylic on Canvas Panel</image:caption>
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      <image:caption>"Untitled Just to enjoy the evening/night Channel the energies just as they exist around me That's the only intention Joy The Moment" 7x5 Acrylic on Canvas Panel</image:caption>
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      <image:caption>"Finding True Happiness In Something Deeply Loved A Lifetime Creates A Light That Shines Magic So Powerful It Changes The World" 18x14 Acrylic, Modeling Paste on Canvas Panel</image:caption>
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      <image:caption>First time taking my automatic drawing into a larger format. Acrylic marker on canvas pannel. 18x24</image:caption>
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      <image:caption>First time adding 3D element of raised lines to paint drawing using modeling paste. Acrylic marker and modeling paste on canvas panel board.</image:caption>
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