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Artist Samizu Matsuki summarizes in 15 handwritten pages her childhhood, education and employments as teacher, air force wife, then professional successful fine artist in New York until severe leg pains and a newly enacted city ordinance barring multiple enterings of the same paintings in city art shows broughht a hiatus to her career in 1980, when she departed New York City for Japan by way of Oregon.