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I’ve always been a priest, just like my father and grandfather, but now I’m more an artist than a priest. When people ask me now what I am, I say that I am an artist.
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The speaker describes a change in how they identify themselves. Being a priest has been a family tradition, shared with their father and grandfather, but “artist” now feels like the more accurate description. The statement does not erase the earlier identity; it says that artistic work has become the speaker’s primary answer when others ask who they are.
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