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" My brother's death picked up my life and put it down somewhere else. I had an image of myself in my mind as a working artist, and when he died, all of that changed. "

Yance Ford

Death

Myself

Mind

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Yance Ford

History

Skin

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Yance Ford

Back

Family

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Yance Ford

Hero

Feel

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