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Visual Arts Support Healing Needs

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Waterbury teen sells paintings to help pay for father’s medical bills Dad has diabetes and needs kidney transplant BY MIKE PATRICK REPUBLICAN-AMERICAN June 28, 2019 3 8066 cutline attribution name:MIKE PATRICK REPUBLICAN-AMERICANAngelina Soto, 14, displays some of her paintings. The incoming Waterbury Arts Magnet School student sells her artwork to help support the medical bills of her father, Angel Soto, who has diabetes and needs a kidney transplant. WATERBURY Angelina Soto’s first works of art were scribbles and stick figures; but as she grew older and her talent improved, she graduated to oil painting. Now, the 14-year-old is using her skills to ease her family’s medical bills, selling her paintings to provide income as her father suffers from diabetes so severe it’s nearly blinded him and left him needing a kidney transplant. “To do one painting, it takes her a good four to five hours and then some,” her mom, Millie Soto, said. “So she does put a lot of