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Jenny Fillius

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I was born into a family of artists and raised in a beach house on the shore of the San Francisco Bay. Both grandmothers were painters (one was award-winning), my uncle a fine woodworker and my aunt a playwright. My dad could do anything. My mother would say something like, “Frank, I think we should take out this wall,” and he’d say, “OK, Betty.”

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I was born into a family of artists and raised in a beach house on the shore of the San Francisco Bay. Both grandmothers were painters (one was award-winning), my uncle a fine woodworker and my aunt a playwright. My dad could do anything. My mother would say something like, “Frank, I think we should take out this wall,” and he’d say, “OK, Betty.”

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