E, you started writing at a very young age. I understand that you won a wriding contest held by the daughters of the americal rovol no, i didn't rite, wiln't. One thing i think is superinteresting about your question about color is that i always refer to those first sort of two decades of my life as the black years. So i don't think it's accident that you chose to bring color to to counter what you might have been feeling inside,. You know, we talk about depression as a darkness. It makes a lot of sense to me a somebody that spent a lot of time analyzing color.
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