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For three years, Christi Newrutzen walked past a half-painted dresser in her house in Bellingham, WA. Gosh, I need to finish that , the 30-year-old trained speech pathologist would think to herself before continuing on with her day. I'll get to it eventually. But the little voices in her head whispered poisonous things. In order to get back to it, they said, the conditions must be just right; the stars "need to align." Three years in, a new voice in her head piped up and asked her a question that would kickstart the rest of her life: how long would it actually take to finish this, though?
She filmed the process of finally painting it, which took less than two hours, and posted it on her TikTok. And she hasn't looked back since. Now, Newrutzen's