Mariam Paré always knew she wanted to be an artist. In 1996, she was on the path to achieving her dream, enrolled as a 20-year-old art major at the College of DuPage in Glen Ellyn, Illinois, when she was shot in a random act of gun violence. The bullet struck her in the neck, instantly rendering the tools of her trade — her hands — useless. “In the beginning, I thought my life was over.
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