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PHOTOGRAPHY BY VANESSA PLAKIAS<br />
Thirty years ago, GRISEL PUIG-SNIDER handed out yet<br />
another fake phone number. But this one was different.<br />
And it’s why she’s here in now, in Los Osos, a place<br />
she likens to the tiny Puerto Rican village where she<br />
grew up, living off the land alongside her family and<br />
neighbors. Today, she runs a business called Left Coast<br />
Art Studio where she finds inspiration in teaching others<br />
the ways of her grandmother, a medicine woman who<br />
crafted remedies with her own hands. Here is her story…<br />
AUG/SEP <strong>2021</strong> | <strong>SLO</strong> <strong>LIFE</strong> MAGAZINE | 35