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VOLUME 2, ISSUE 5 - MAY 2026

LEGACY LETTERS

"I've always lived within four miles of where I sit today in Baltimore, but my world has been anything but small. Art found me when I was about 13, not the other way around. It's something that drives you inside. Like what makes someone become an . . . "
"I'm grateful for my children, my family, my grandkids, nature, and good friends. These have been the constants that have carried me through everything. If I had to tell the story of my life in just a few words: my life has been sometimes scary. Sometimes sad. Lots of family . . . "
"I grew up in Providence. I also worked at Brown as a sanitation engineer, washing dishes. I have great grandchildren, a granddaughter, and a great grandson. I wake up everyday to give God glory somehow . . . "
"Joseph M. Showell (JMS) is wise, humble, faith-driven, and an educational visionary. I was astonished to hear that, for most of his life, he worked two careers at once: one as an educational specialist for the . . . "

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