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Meeting Trysha Thomasson is like running into a talking rainbow.

She is loquacious, admirable, funny, unique, and animated.

She is also autistic, which is just one of her assets.

It makes her who she is - a striver, a go-getter, and a character.

On a recent Monday morning at the Roseau Public Library, Trysha and Kate Hammer, the head librarian, sat down at the checkers/chess table, and it was hang on to your hat because Trysha can speak rapidly.

"I grew up in Middlebro, Manitoba, and went to Ross L. Gray School in Sprague," she said, keeping no secrets as she added that she was born at the Ros...