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The next week during the school art show, Vashti encounters a young boy who believes he can not draw. After he claims that he can not even draw a straight line, Vashti asks him to try his best at making one. While the result is imperfectly squiggly, she nonetheless instructs him to sign it, starting
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Vashti is a girl who believes she can not draw. When her art teacher realizes that she left her assignment blank, Vashti is instructed to just "make a mark and see where it takes you." Vashti is only able to make a small dot on her paper, but to her surprise, the teacher asks her to sign it and
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