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Through Images in Motion, Portuges did many things such as designing puppets, doing 3-D animations and printing, sculpting various items, writing scripts, doing stage performances, and making radio control mechanisms. She had also been a part of the process for making commercials and doing editing
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Portuges also had a passion for children's books and wrote and illustrated and was a member of the
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Kamela met Kieron
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