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MIKE SPRINGER/Staff photo
Artist Betty Lou Schlemm of Rockport glances at one of her paintings Monday while preparing a retrospective show and sale of her life's work to benefit three local charities at the North Shore Arts Association in Gloucester. "Each painting has a memory," said Schlemm. "This is my life."

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