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DiverseABILITY: There's a great song by another beauti- ful artist called "I Was Here" that boldly declares, "When I leave this world, I'll leave no regrets/ Leave something to remember, so they won't forget." What do you want your something to be? When it's all said (or signed) and done, what does your legacy look like? Harvey: If I could work towards anything, it would be to continuously be a gracious and compassion- ate person in everyday life. Yes, I would like to have a ripple effect for change, positivity and inclusion, and to be able to be there for people on a grand-scale, but just being a person who can sit next to somebody and not say a word while they cry has an impact that is a legacy in itself. "Try" is about understanding that you're broken and wanting to be different. My new single coming out in March, "Masterpiece," is saying that I am embracing the parts of me that are broken, and realizing that they've made me who I am. The point of "Masterpiece" is to say that even though you might not know where you're going in that moment, when you shoot forward in time and you look back on it, you'll real- ize how much you've learned and how much zpvwf!hspxo/!Boe!uibut!b!qbsu!pg!tvdi!b!cjh! story that I feel people should know about. I don't ever want to change that girl who wrote "Try," and diminish the struggle that she went through because that has changed and impacted who I am and how compassionate I am towards others, so much so that I would never want to take back any part of my past journey. I hope that people can truly embrace uifjs!kpvsofzt!ipxfwfs!ejgdvmu!uifz!nbz!cf-! and realize that it's making you stronger. Mandy Harvey continues to perform around the United States and has been featured on CNN, NBC Nightly News, Canada AM, The Steve Harvey Show and in the Los Angeles Times. In addition to performing and speak- ing, Mandy has become an ambassador for No Barriers USA with a mission to encourage, inspire and assist others to break through their qfstpobm!cbssjfst/!Tif!qvcmjtife!ifs!stu!cppl! on her life story, Sensing the Rhythm: Finding My Voice in a World Without Sound , in 2017.
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"No matter what my day looks like, or no matter what I'm doing, it's all a part of my story, and I'm the only one who's ever going to have a story exactly like this. That is worth celebrating."
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