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The Mission PAINTING WITH PURPOSE

It’s a sunny afternoon on Balmy Alley and artist Susan Cervantes is inspecting her life’s work. She walks up and down the mural-covered, block-long alley inspecting the paintwork. But there’s not much time to focus because people keep coming up to her. And then there are the two men carefully levering off the wall an enormous wooden baby emerging from a giant vagina.

“They’re delicate but just do your best,” says Susan to

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