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Forgotten art “Why haven’t you completed a drawing?” the teacher asks me.

If I tell her that I’ve tried more than once and it didn’t work out, she might not believe me.

After a while, she comes back with a stack of drawings in her hand and says to me, “What’s all this doing in the wastepaper basket?” Then she smiles at me and adds, “Works of art belong on the classroom wall, not in the wastepaper basket.”

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