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Draw My Life - Michelle Phan
Draw My Life - Michelle Phan
Michelle Phan
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11:25 · May 19, 2013
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here it is draw my life
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I had a tough time making this because
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well I have to tell my entire life story under 20 minutes
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I can barely remember what I did yesterday
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so this will be a very brief summary
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of my life I would love to get more in death but we can
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save that for another time
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so let's get trying
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there are 7 billion people in this world
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meaning there are 7 billion stories to be told
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but today I'm going to tell you one story from someone
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who was born in this Tiny Town in
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Massachusetts called Boston or
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Baston AKA Beantown January
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1987 it was snowing
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and my mother and father were driving
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at this time my mother was 6 months pregnant
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and she asked my father what my name should be
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and they both decided on
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Michelle however my mom looked over at him and asked well what about our
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Vietnamese name he looked out the window and saw this beautiful
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Snowflake and he said
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tbang which means Avalanche
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thanks Dad for naming me after something
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so terrifying hi my name is Avalanche
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and I could potentially kill you
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nice to meet you
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so that's me an avalanche
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4 months later I was born
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year of the rabbit
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my welcome party was
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lovely my mother told me that when she brought me home and placed me
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in my crib my brother thought I was a toy
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so he literally jumped and slammed
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himself on top of me
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apparently I stopped breathing
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and my mother thought I died
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anyways that's how I first met my amazing
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Steve a few years later we all packed up and moved
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to California now if you don't know this Landmark
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this is the Golden Gate Bridge and it's located
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in San Francisco this is where we
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all right so I'm going to draw my family portrait
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this is my mom her name is heing which means gentle one in Vietnamese
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myself Michelle or Avalanche
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my brother Steve and of course my wonderful
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father we were a very loving family
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while living in San Francisco
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we moved several different times
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at least over six times in one year
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I remember packing and moving
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and at first I thought it was fun
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but later I found out it was because my father had a gambling
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addiction he was a very loving father but his weakness was playing poker
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it was so bad that he would gamble all our rent money and we
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would get evicted that's why we kept moving
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it broke my mother's
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heart I'll never forget seeing my mother
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cry I realized at a very early age
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that I couldn't wait to grow up so I could help
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her because we moved so often I ended up going to several
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different schools in one year
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so it was hard for me to make friends because not only was I
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shy but I was always the new girl
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luckily I had an
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imagination and I drew a lot
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Disney Princesses were one of my favorite things to draw
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I wanted to be just like them
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Oakland California this is where I made my first friend
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I finally felt like I belonged
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it was a wonderful feeling
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and I remember I had so much fun
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you never forget the first friend you made make
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I will never forget
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her sadly it didn't last long my father told us that we had to
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move again and I never saw her again
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but it's okay you guys are now my
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friends so we were on the road again
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we packed all our things in a van
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and drove out to Florida
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he said we would be moving next to Disney World and we could see
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Mickey later we found out
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that well that's our Leno that's where Disney World is at
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and we are right there
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Tampa not really close to Orlando
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but my first day at school
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was was pretty hard
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I never felt so different in my life
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there wasn't a lot of Asian people at my school
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and my classmates they made fun of me
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calling me names Man kids can be so
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cruel but it's okay
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I found something else that made me
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smile it was drawing
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I draw superheroes all day in class class
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I even created a superhero
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version of myself I seriously thought that when I grew up
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I would have superpowers
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one morning I woke
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up and I noticed that my father was
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missing my mother was so
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I didn't know why my father
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left but every night I would wait for him to come
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back he never did
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however we carried on
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my mother is a strong woman
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and she found a way to take care of us
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we were happy we didn't have much but
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we had each other
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my mother was a bombshell
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it didn't take her long to finally
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remarry and we were so excited because
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now we had a stepdad
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we were so happy to finally have a father
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again A year later my little sister was born
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Steve and I were Overjoyed
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to have a little sister
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and I was excited
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to be a big sister
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and her name is
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Christine I loved her so
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much I was never happy when I was home
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turns out my stepdad
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wasn't the father I dreamt
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of this is something I'd rather not talk about
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but my mother was the best
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she loved me so much and one Christmas
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I'll never forget I got the very thing I've always wanted
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a Sailor Moon Doll
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it was everything to me
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the second thing I wanted was this Barbie Dreamhouse
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but my family couldn't afford it
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which was totally fine because
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I made my own dream housee
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out of cardboard box
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I cut out a door
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a window and every day after school I couldn't wait to come home to
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play with my dolls it's funny how the best things in life are the
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most simple in middle school
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I played the trumpet
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oh man my mom she nagged at me all the time
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she wished that I could play the flute or a violin
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something that was less loud than a trumpet
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High School I grew out of playing
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dolls instead I played
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games when my parents were arguing
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I would either save the world
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or become the World's Greatest
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Warrior I even picked up on manga art and wrote and Drew a lot
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of my own stories
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it was my only escape from reality
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see we didn't have the internet so you guys today lucked out
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gosh teenage years always so awkward
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I wanted to wear makeup so badly but my mother she wouldn't let me
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but little by little
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she allowed me to wear a little bit of
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eyeliner and then mascara
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and afterwards she let me wear colored lip gloss
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was a pretty big deal for me
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I loved makeup so much because to me
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it was like drawing
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it was on my own face
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senior year of high school
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I couldn't take the HT
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anymore my stepdad left a lot of scars
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that I'm still trying to heal
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from the heart can only take so
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much my mother said enough was enough
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and we all left
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him we packed up our things
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and went to find a new
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home it was just us
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again but it felt
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right just like old times
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we didn't know what was going to happen
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but we knew that we were going to walk
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together it wasn't easy
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we had to move a few times and
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at one point we could only afford to rent a bedroom
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from a family we all shared a bed
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and my brother would sleep on the floor
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my brother and I had to work to help out my mother
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it was tough but
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we made it through together as a family
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we were unbreakable a miracle happened
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I was able to attend college
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that meant I had to move an hour away from them and I was
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devastated I cried so much because
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it was my first time away from home
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and it also meant that I couldn't have my mom's f as much
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man you cried too because it is so good
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my college gave out laptops
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to all the students
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I always dreamt of having my own laptop
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but I never thought I'd have one
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well guess what this was a laptop where I filmed my very first makeup
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tutorial I just wanted to show every girl out there how beautiful she was
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and how makeup can be their own superhero
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costume Batman Superman Spider-Man
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without their costumes they're still powerful
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but it's their costume
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that tells the world
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that superheroes anyways I'd love to go more into details about how everything happened
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but this video would be 2 hours long so I'm just going to fast
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forward to today I now live in Two Cities
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one being New York also known as the Big Apple
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and Los Angeles I got my family at home where they're safe and happy
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my mother is as beautiful
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as ever and hasn't aged a day
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my little sister grew up so fast
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she's now a beautiful young lady
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as for my brother being the awesome guy that he is
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found someone really special
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he married a beautiful woman
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you might know her as
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promise so everyone is happy and healthy
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healthy as for me
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well well let's just say I met someone very special
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in Paris this is another story that deserves to be told
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but I'll save that for another time
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but that's pretty much a brief summary of my story
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even when times were tough
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my childlike Spirit never died
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I found that very thing that takes me to a happy place
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it was Art and to others
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it could be music
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writing video games whatever it is
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finding that special thing
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will help move you
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forward kind of like a lotus flower
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finding sunlight in muddy
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water when all odds are against it
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it will still rise up
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to bloom we all have a story to tell
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and we are all part of something
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beautiful to the world
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you may be one
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person but to one person
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you may be the
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every great dream begins with a dreamer
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and every dreamer has a story
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so don't settle for a happy ending
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because to be continued
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is way more fun
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and I'm wishing you the best on your
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story good luck on the next chapter in your
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