Australian Homespun

TONE’S CREATIVE LIFE

My parents often told me a story about when they realised that I was artistic. I was just a toddler and while the other children in kindergarten only drew doodles, I apparently made a portrait of my father with a beard and clothes. According to my parents, the kindergarten aunts came to them in shock.

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