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They didn’t see her make friends as a child with students at her middle school who crossed the border weekly, sometimes daily, to attend school. Or walk with those kids in the afternoons and evenings as far as she could go without walking all the way to Matamoros, the city just on the other side.
The same city her parents immigrated to the United States from; the same city that formed a part of her heritage.
They don’t know she often found people who had crossed over and were waiting for their families at McDonald’s, where she worked, later in life. That she often called her mom to tell her she was bringing strangers home so they would have somewhere to sleep.
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Tracy Bettencourt runs her hands across various sizes of stretched canvas, creating bold and swirling techniques, brilliant colors and shapes that morph into art she’ll never see.
Her world is black. But not dark.
Bettencourt, the artist behind artwork currently on display at Artlink in Strawberry Alley, lost her sight 14 years ago to retinitis pigmentosa. It was only then that she taught herself how to paint, her way of refusing to let her condition win.