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She brings me such joy. I am delighted and honored to share this bit of her with you. She is 17 going on 40 and has so many wonderful qualities it would be difficult to list them all here. She's an artist. She works well in pencil, inks, Prismacolor, crayon, and clay. She 's interested in miniatures and has several dollhouses. She is a master of dialects and voices and her skills at puppetry are excellent. Her French is almost fluent and she's been to Paris twice.

She's quick witted and clever. (Some have even said mouthy. Charlotte is her own person and quite independent. She values her individuality highly and that causes some of her peers and a few of her teachers a certain amount of distress, not that she's concerned. She'll graduate from high school in the spring of '99.

So you'll know she's a real person and not just an idolized personification of perfection I will assure you that one cannot get into her room, she doesn't do the dishes without complaint and laundry? Oh, is that what that big metal box is for? Awesome, look, it holds lots of water, cool.

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