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<p>With nothing more than a few googled images the OP is accusing the ‘friend’ of fraud. If it were one of my kids would I stand idly by? Not a chance. Would I attack the accuser? You bet, with everything I had; I would scorch the earth under her feet and then salt the ground. </p>
<p>Are you actually arguing that you wouldn’t defend one of your own? That you would passively let someone make unsubstantiated accusations about your son or daughter and you wouldn’t react? For her sake, let’s hope the OP goes up against someone like you and not me. </p>
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<p>No, what is pathetic is the OP hiding behind some moral ideal to justify her actions when all her subsequent postings point to a resentment and bitterness toward the ‘friend’. And can we stop referring to the accused in this case as her ‘friend’, nothing could be further from the truth.</p>
<p>According to the OP, the accused has done everything that UCLA has asked of her, maybe not to the level of her application portfolio (the OP’s opinion), but apparently enough to remain a ‘student in good standing’ at UCLA. Yet the OP continues on this ‘crusade’. Out of curiosity, why hasn’t the OP confronted the accused? Believe it or not there may be an explanation; personally I refuse to buy the OP’s story hook, line and sinker. </p>
<p>The OP has sat on this “evidence” for three years; she has allegedly spent the last year googling images and contacting artists (can you say ‘obsession’?) and only now, after her meal ticket disappears does she decide the high moral ideal of “ART” needs to be preserved. Bull. You are free to believe that the accused is acting for the greater good but I know a vendetta when I see one.</p>