Linda Hoover never intended to cause any problems. She just wanted to add some fun and visual excitement to her mural, which is in process on the side of the Fine Arts Building on the Missouri State Fairgrounds.
It seems what is fun and visually exciting to some (count me among them) is a horrible, heinous example for Missouri youths to others.
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