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It's as if I were collaborating with myself, revealing my relationship to the material. My hand would make the drawing. Then my mouth would transmit it.

Jim Hodges

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Jim Hodges
Age: 67
Born: 1956
Born: November 19
Politician
Lancaster
South Carolina
James Hovis Hodges
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