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“And that’s why you moved”

She nodded “To find out what it would be like if I wasn’t surrounded by people who expected nothing froiven up on me Shyla always believed in me She said I was sed ht…I thought there was no way I had no degree, no experience But your hiringin me, too In my work She took a chance on h to take a chance on myself was because of my friend I can’t let her down,” she said, her voice shaky “There is soI’ood at, I’m afraid history will just repeat itself”

“Tell me, are your bother and sister artists?”

She shook her head “No”

“Your parents, are they artists?”

“No”

“Could any of thes that you do? Not only that, could they find thethat you do, to make them a reality?”

“Probably not”

“Then maybe you haven’t failed You’ve simply succeeded in different areas Areas that those other people couldn’t, and so don’t understand”

“I…” She blinked rapidly “You’re the first person who’s ever…said it like that”

“It’s true, though We can’t all be great at everything I couldn’t design the s for the store, so I hired you to do it”

“Your hiring er did”

“Fine, but you get the idea I don’t do everything I don’t have the ability to do everything Why should you?”

“It’s just that what I do has never been important to my family”