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She is gifted, they say. She has the gift. A gift with hard labor attached. After inspiration must come the plunge down inner passages, the search which suffocates but liberates: the spelunking where no one could help even if you wanted them to. Instead, plucking souvenirs from those depths, you must keep asking yourself, in a tongue only you can speak, What next? But how? while shapes and colors swirl out of control. A gift, but a subpoena.Which can take weeks to fill. Years. Your whole life.Which requires initiative. Commitment. Loner values, loner aptitudes. Conviction that something so personal is worth doing no matter what.
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