Love Paints the Way

which were filled with the excitement of going to college.
Rebecca didn’t even recognize the girls smiling back at
her. This young version of herself looked strong,
confident and…happy.
That was not all she was staring at in the photo, for
she was holding a pencil sketch she made when she was
about ten years old of her dad. That was the sketch that
began her quest to become an artist. It had been years
since she did a pencil sketch or any type of artwork for
that matter. Rebecca put the picture back down, feeling
defeated against her own self and who she was today. She
halted that journey of growing as an artist and suddenly
the weight of that hit her hard.
Just as Rebecca was making her way from the
kitchen after retrieving a glass of water, the front door
opened and her mother came bursting through the door
with a huge smile on her face and Abby, their dog, on her
heels.
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