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Merry Christmas and Happy Hannukah!I have set up an account for my daughter who is a very bright and talented young woman. Unfortunately she had taken a path of self destruction a few years ago, and lost sight of her potential. She has been working feverishly for the past year to become the beautiful blossoming person that she has, and for that I am very very proud. Recently she even graduated from high school as Salutatorian at only 16 yrs old, a mere 50 points below Valedictorian, despite her mental illness and drug addiction issues.
I am amazed at her extreme effort, and abundant progress, but she still doubts herself. She has been in the custody of the court for nearly 5 years now, and will be home for Christmas for the first time since then, in a few days.
I am asking my friends in the DA community to help me show my couragous and talented daughter that she has the potential for greatness. Will you help me by commenting on her work, and assisting her in getting back the faith that she has lost in herself?
If you could please leave her a message of support in her journal, and adding any work that you find worthy to your fav's, it would insure that she will see the support on Christmas morning.
I will leave any and all messages intact for her to read and reply to at her discretion.
Thank you so much for your support, and time, during this holiday season. It means very much to my daughters and I.
Her Account: ~FutureFaith
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Her story is very inspirational. Thank you for sharing her story and her photo.
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Man, somehow reading what you said brings tears to my eyes. I just read a book (A VERY GOOD BOOK..) titled "Crank" by Ellen Hopper I think and it was all poetry... but it tells a story about this young girl who's shizophrenic and got caught into the drug addiction and sex abuses.. it's really sad to know that its non-fictional too..and it's almost like I am looking at her now..
I hope this Xmas will be good for you.. it's touching you go so far for your daughter.. my mom wouldnt give a fucking shit.
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My daughter and you seem to have very much in common, in a good and bad way.
Disorders, grief, resentment, anger, low self-esteem...
Artistic talent, a joy of reading poetry (she is a poet too, and very good), faith, expressive ability through your art, and hope...
She has busted her ass over the past year or so to get beyond the bullshit, and has made soooooo many leaps and strides... Yet she has her whole life yet to go...
I am going to 
(brings tears to my eyes when strangers say such heartfelt things to my child, and myself too... *hands you a tissue and offers a soft shoulder and warm embrace*)
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Oh I hope you don't cry, cuz I will to, if you do.
Honestly, I grow up without much guidance..and to see you and her being so wonderfully together and close, it makes me yearn for it, and it pains me cuz I can't... happy family stuff do get me frustrated at my own self..
Yeah she can talk to me in AIM or MSN if she likes to.. I hope she's doing okay... I was gang-raped before and etc, but let's not make it about me.. I hope she can so look into the mirror and realise she has her own set of uniqueness we don't have... it's bad that we met some mishaps in the middle of the road, but we have to still go on.
God, I'm really talking too much.. I hope you don't think I'm a burden.
I do know it's hard TO RECOVER and I don't think I ever will, but as long as she takes each day slowly, it will go on fine..things are like that..
thanks for listening to me... it's a nice thing..
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You WILL recover, because you have the will to be better... Keep focus, and work toward the goal... You are a fantastically sensitive and kind and generous person. Your spirit will only grow with each step forward, don't be scared. There are people who care about you out in the world, who you don't even know. The least you can do for them is to care about yourself just as much as they do, if not more.
Be strong, grasshopper, and have faith.... (burden my ass....you know you aren't burdening me, its a pleasure to communicate on any level with someone so kind)
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Thank you for your kind words... but said some experts, you can't really recover once you're in it..
All I'm doing is coping with it and pretend it's all good.. and it is all good.. 
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Hey, I hope everything turns out and everything for the Holidays turn out just fine. Ill look at her journal- well now
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She is a beauty though, isn't she? (although I am SOOOOOOOOO very biased)
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Screw these asses ok! Everyone needs a pick-me-up in their life, we all need compassion. I would help you myself, but alas I'm only one person. I just recently turned 18, and I know the hardships of todays teen. I dont know about those other people, but I have a heart and I'm not gonna try to act like I dont have one, cause I dont lie to myself about how I am i am truly proud of anybody that can succeed so hard with so many pressures. Living life is hard enough. I hope you can see in yourself that your art is beautiful, and I see a new style not yet discoverd before in your art. I draw, my frends say im the best thay have ever seen, and i have done countless pieces for them and have done countless tattoos for people and yet..I'm still blown away by your work! Please, if you ever do something for somebody you dont know, keep creating all the works of your mind for somebody like me or for anybody who apreciates fine art because I have spent some time going through your art and taking the time to truly apreciate each piece. Now that may sound like I actually have some time on my hands, but I am really not on for long but today I spent the most time that I ever have online just apreciating your work. I took the time out to write you this in the good spirit that you could see that you're a beautiful person both inside and out. I wish you all the best things in life because people with that much talent should live richly and be full in life where ever thay go. I wish you all the best and all the good fortune in the world I would personally enjoy seeing what else a mind like yours could create. Please, I know there are other people out there that would enjoy your work just as much as I have.
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I think, given that she is beautiful and talented perhaps you should not post such things to get syampthy comments, instead let her see for herself her own worth just by getting good comments totally without your support. I personally don't want to know about her mental problems and drug addiction unless she herself decides to tell me. We all have our personal hells, and perhaps the only person that can guide us through such deserts of the mind are indeed ourselves. Think about it.
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Pharcyd3 :
It's really sad to see that you don't notice the overall theme of Sintilation's request : H E L P. Not everyone lives in a perfect world, where everything is rosy. Please direct me to that small corner of the world that you live in. You know, the one where there are no doors, and you're locked away all by yourself.
For some, the only outlet to self destruction, is art, no matter what form it comes in. FutureFaith is in a place where she is not fortunate to have access to DA, and therefore Sintilation is only giving FutureFaith the avenue to "guide" herself "through such deserts of the mind", as you suggest.
I can see that this will only become a place where barbs of negativity are traded, so I chose to take the road less traveled, and end it here. I only ask that YOU think about it.
Peace be with you.
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I don't come from a world where compassion is none existent and I'm a little insulted that that's what you belive. I just happen to be cynical of any such effort as described above - it is clearly for the right reasons, but I personally know that for the longest time the ONLY person that called me beautiful was my mother and that caused me more anguish than if she'd just said nothing. It is infintely more rewarding to achieve something on your own merits and at worse damaging to have them achieved falsely for you by others. All I am really saying is that people's feelings are more complicated than anything that can be solved with just plain compassion and naivity and I ask that her mother be VERY careful with her daughter's, because ultimately I care about this person just enough to make a comment even if it does seem negative, since such things should always be bared in mind. Not every good intention leads out of hell.
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Thank you for your Christmas present to my child. I appreciate your support. Even criticism to her mother will be an awakening for her to read on Christmas morning. You rawk!
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Well I'm not really here for the praise, but I sympathise with your daughter, I just ask that you're careful about how you go about it, as one caring human being to another.
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Instead of wasting your time here arguing your point, why not take a gander at her gallery and decide for yourself whether she is worthy or unworthy of your support artistically? I mean, it would make the world a more compassionate place..
I don't recall anyone asking for sympathy comments, her work stands on its own two feet. Go look! If you feel that her art isnt worthy of a comment, don't leave one. Thats all that I ask.
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Hmm I obviously didn't make my point very clearly, but no matter. I will go and take a look at her gallery.
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