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Artworks, whether fiction, music, or painting, because they have the power and possibility to become truth, when repeated enough or told enough are somehow truth about what America is, whether they were or not.

Cynthia Daignault

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Cynthia Daignault
Age: 54
Painter
Baltimore
Maryland
Become
Artwork
Truth
Repeated
Power
Somehow
America
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Music
Painting
Enough
Fiction
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