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I've had some pretty wild depression the past couple years. I'm finally starting to work through it - with art.
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Random Princesses
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Virginia Hall
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An Inuit woman so strong nobody could even beat her lice in arm-wrestling, her story just gets stranger the closer you look.
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Revolutionized the field of mathematics, yet was persecuted for being Jewish and paid a pittance for her visionary teaching work.
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Beloved
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