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Transcription: [00:14:00]
{SPEAKER name="Faith Ringgold"}
a picture of my brother and my father— my father's to the left. The way they looked at my sister's wedding.

[00:14:11]
And this is my sister's wedding, um, my sister's not on here. [[audience laughter]] I never could figure out why she wasn't on this picture. Mmm, well, I am third from the left.

[00:14:29]
But my sister's not here. My brother is second from the left on the top and my father is the last one.

[00:14:37]
And we were always told that— and my mother used to always say that my father was so tall —now look at him, he's not tall at all. [[audience laughter]] Well see she was very short. So she thought every—she thought I was tall. Everybody was tall to her.

[00:14:58]
Well, two pictures went by. Uh-uh, well we just passed by one of my weddings, that was quick. [[laughter]] Well, that's actually the one I'm in now. The first one was that fast. [[laughter]] Anyway.

[00:15:18]
Here she is with her grandchildren and a niece. My two little girls are the little girls, and Cheryl, my brother's daughter, is the big girl and the niece is the second from the right.

[00:15:36]
She also loved to have children in her fashion shows and she always made clothes for my children and for Cheryl. So a part of every show involved her bringing the children out to show their fashions.

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And here she is with her three