Growing up, I loved to write and draw. During those early years, my dad would look at my art and say, “This is very good.” Then he’d frame it and spend time with it. My mom, she loved my art too. But in a different way. The way that you love something and at the same time know both the joy and the risk it can bring. She’d look at my art and she’d say, “You should learn to type. Everybody needs a secretary.” So I learned to type 200 wpm and I became a court reporter. As much as I tried to be grateful for that job, for years I felt deeply lost and miserable.
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