Van Gogh stole my creativity*

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It was 1995. The setting was a large all-girls school in Sydney’s Inner West.
My friends and I spent our days trying to channel our inner-Coolio to sing along with Gangsta’s Paradise. TLC warned us not to go chasing Waterfalls.

I was in Year 8. Life was grand.
We were studying Van Gogh’s Sunflowers painting in Art class and creating our own versions of this masterpiece.

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