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my

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name is David Johnson both sides

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of my family are from Harvey and um

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my

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before that you know came from Mississippi

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and um sort of that same

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Chicago Story coming to the

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South Side uh it it's interesting

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because I can remember my sophomore year and

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I remember it specifically

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because that was the year that a doctor um

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prescribed uh medication

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for my

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ad and I remember

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just feeling a shame that what

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is wrong with me something must be wrong

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me and I got to go to the nurses office and

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take a pill and you know then

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it would feel weird after I took it and

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I was focusing but I had anxiety and

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I remember I could just be sweating in the middle

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of the class because I was so nervous

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it wasn't until

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I went on that trip that I realized that

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nothing was wrong with me years he showed

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me how to be a commercial creative

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it changed my life changed my family's

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life so I was able to make

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my life out of being a creative and

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an artist my name is

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my mother for sure I didn't have a

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lot of friends at school I got around people that

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knew how to do the things that I was trying to do 1

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day when you take pictures what

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do you look for to make it possible

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you

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know when you were talking to somebody that you really

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really know and you

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can tell what they're thinking by their facial

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expression and have you ever experienced this where you

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you know someone so well that as soon

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as they make a face you're like you're mad

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or you're going to cry or whatever I

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think part of it is really taking

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the time to quiet my own

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thoughts and my own self to be

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present with and pay attention to what people's

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faces are saying so the whole time I've been looking at

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and I can see different messages just

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popping off of your face like I said we have a

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yearly conference that we do but

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we also do mentorship programming

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um we actually have a

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mentorship

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chicago.co is our

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IGN that's our

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website and you can definitely come

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out to any of the programming that we're doing I

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would say we we do stuff basically

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every quarter we're we're doing things

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so would love to have you first follow but then

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also come out to some of the things that we're doing