n high school: go to art school to paint, art history, get a degree, and earn my living what I like to do, teach and paint. I had short stint at teaching summer school and that a B.A. from Smith College was not h qualification. I had not been allowed to in art there, had not enough of the needed s for the two years I would spend there. In venties I could not go back to school se I was a wife, mother, tour guide, ation contractor, volunteer, occasional Trying to hone my painting skills, the house, its interior, or, and garden often became the subjects of my painterly pts and thus I got ever more intimately involved in it. Even beginning my formal studies at the School of the Art te of Chicago, I had tried to capture the Tomek House on s, often in vain, but, as far as I know, it is the most painted t house and garden. Looking at the paintings I still have le. The house ceased to be an albatross! Every cloud has a silver lining, but it may take a while you see it. Something good emerged after my trials and my ourt appearances. My lawyers informed me that there was law that, in a divorce situation, if a partner has obtained egrees during their marriage, the other partner is entitled to f his or her future earnings after a divorce. wife to anding Then
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