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Joy Reyneke found a way to communicate as a young child in South Africa.

She had a speech impediment, and she was bullied, she said

But when she got behind a lens, that all changed.

It’s 1963, and I’m in Mrs. Fridley’s first grade class in Salsipuedes Elementary School in Watsonville, Calif. I’ve been handed a thin piece of 8 1/2 by 11 pulpy muddy-white paper, set on a landscape view, the top half empty for a drawing, the bottom half set with wide pale blue lines.