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- Hi, I'm Jiéyì, I am an artist

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and a teaching artist, and that means

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that I get to share the artwork

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I make with people like you.

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I like making art a lot of different ways.

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Sometimes I dance, sometimes
I play with technology,

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but one material I really
love working with is paper.

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So today we're gonna
work on some paper magic,

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and we're gonna tell stories using paper.

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Theater and animation are
pretty similar in a lot of ways

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and in this project we're going to make

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all of our actors and
our props out of paper.

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Sometimes when I do this project

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I use those pieces at the end
to make stop-motion animation.

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So I'll tell you a little
bit about that at the end,

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but mostly we're just gonna be focusing

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on telling stories with paper.

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So to make your piece, you wanna start

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by coming up with a storyboard.

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So, that is almost like a comic

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where you figure out what's
gonna happen in your story.

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So I'm gonna go ahead and
use a pencil and a ruler,

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but it's okay, you don't
need straight lines

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to draw out a grid on here.

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So on here I drew out some big rectangles

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and some small rectangles.

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I have some small rectangles underneath

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so I can add some notes if I want to.

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So I am thinking about a story

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that is of a creature in a boat.

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Sort of like a Charmander-like creature

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with a fire on its tale.

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And I'm thinking that Charmander
is sailing in the boat

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and then its tail accidentally
catches the boat on fire.

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And so the boat explodes in flames,

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and as the boat is breaking
apart there're some pieces

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of wood in the boat and Charmander grabs

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onto one of those pieces.

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And he uses it to float
safely to an island,

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but it turns out that that island

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is actually the back of a turtle.

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And that's as far as I have with my story.

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But I'm gonna go ahead and
draw out what those images

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might look like.

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So I'm gonna start with my boat,

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in the first panel.

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(pencil scratching)

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I have Charmander and
my boat in the ocean.

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And so in the next panel I have to think

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about what happens next, right?

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So I think for me, what
happens next is that

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the sail catches on fire.

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So in this panel I have my
boat with Charmander, the sail,

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the sail's on fire, and there's
some big exclamation points

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in the background.

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In the next one, I think
that what I wanna do

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is the boat falling apart.

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So, I drew Charmander in
the water with some pieces

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of the boat and some smoke.

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Next I am going to draw Charmander...

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holding on to a piece of
wood and floating along.

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I'm gonna draw a line just
'cause I wanted to show

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that Charmander is moving forward.

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In the next one I'm
gonna have Charmander...

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(pencil scratching)

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still floating in the water,

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but now there is a
island coming into view.

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And so now Charmander is on the island,

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there's a tree on the island.

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And then, in the next
scene we wanna find out

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that it's a turtle, right?

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So, maybe...

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the turtle starts to emerge.

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I put a little question mark there,

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'cause Charmander is pretty
surprised about this.

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And I think that's what I have for now.

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So this is what I'm gonna work with.

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So now, I have to think about

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what sort of parts I'm gonna make.

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I can think about props and
I can think about background,

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I can think about character.

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So I know that I need to
draw Charmander for sure,

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I also want to draw a boat and a sail.

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I need to draw the ocean and some waves.

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I need to draw some fire.

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I need to draw pieces of the boat,

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and a turtle, and a tree.

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And all those different parts

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I'm going to draw separately;
that way, I can move them.

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So I'm gonna go ahead and start,

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and I wanna start

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by drawing my character.

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And after I draw everything in with pencil

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I can go ahead and color it.

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Color pencils work,
markers work, crayons work.

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I already started on this earlier.

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So I'm gonna pull out some
of the pieces I worked on.

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So in here I have the beginning
of Charmander-like creature.

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It's not exactly Charmander.
Our waves, part of the boat,

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and I have another piece
of boat here with some fire

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that needs to be finished.

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So I'm gonna keep working
from these pieces.

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I also have some pieces
that are already cut out.

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So I have a turtle, and
a tree, and some waves.

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I also have an even bigger island,

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so I might use part this too.

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This island is yellow instead of green,

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so maybe I want to color it in,

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or I could use this for a different story.

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I also want some pieces of the boat,

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that are just, sort-of, in pieces, right?

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So I'm gonna go ahead and
draw some pieces of boat.

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So this is a whole boat, some
pieces of boat, some fire.

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I have another piece of boat
over here and some fire,

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I started some smoke, I'm gonna
add a little bit more smoke.

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(marker cap snapping)

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(marker cap snapping)
(marker thudding)

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And then, let's see, what else do I need?

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So I can look here and see, okay.

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So I have my boat, I have my character.

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I need to finish drawing my character.

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This one's a little bit big though.

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So I think that I might
finish this character instead.

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I have my smoke and my pieces here.

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I have some waves.

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So I think what I need are
some exclamation points,

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a question mark, a smaller creature.

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And now is the part where
you cut out your pieces.

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(scissors thudding)

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And I do have these pieces of boat

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and I think I wanna add
some char to them as well

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so that we know that this is after.

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(marker cap snapping)

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Okay, so maybe we can begin our story.

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I'm also gonna cut this just...

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(paper tearing)

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so we have this piece,
it's a little bit burned.

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(marker cap snappign)

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So this is my stage.

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I have my characters on stage,

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and I have my storyboard over here.

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And my story begins in the ocean.

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There were many waves that day.

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And a creature, who is not Charmander,

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but was very similar to Charmander,

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was taking a ride on a sailboat.

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So Charmander was riding
along in the boat.

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But, unfortunately when
Charmander walked across the boat

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Charmander's fiery tale started
to catch the boat on fire.

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First there was just a little bit of fire,

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and then suddenly, there
was fire everywhere!

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Charmander was so
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but as quickly as the fire came,
the fire started to go out.

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And in the water there were...

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broken pieces of the boat.

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And smoke from the dying flames.

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And Charmander was still in the water

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and found a piece of boat to cling on to.

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And so Charmander swam.

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Charmander swam, and swam, and
swam, and passed by the boat.

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And kept swimming until...

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it saw what looked a lush island

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with a tree, and single
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And so Charmander swam to shore,

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and Charmander was so excited

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to be on the shore and to be
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But this island was actually
the back of a turtle.

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And the turtle started to move,

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and go on its own journey.

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To be continued.

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So this is my story that I've
told with pieces of paper.

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In it all of our actors
are pieces of paper,

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all of our props are pieces of paper.

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You can also tell the
story through animation.

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So that's probably the
next step that I would do

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is to turn this into a
stop-motion animation project.

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Stop-motion animation is
when you take pictures,

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and you take so many pictures in a row

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that when they play it
together they become a video.

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There's lots of different apps for a phone

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or for a tablet that you can use,

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some of them are free and
some of them cost money.

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And I'm not gonna show you how to use

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any of those apps today,

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but if you wanna try it I recommend

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looking, just searching
in the App Store to see

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what kind of apps are
available, and trying it out.

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Thank you so much for
playing with me today.

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I would love to see what kind of stories

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you come up with, thank you.

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I'm Jiéyì and I love working with paper.

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