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Stick People
Alleke drew people today for the first time. Happy and SadThe happy person is the one on top, and the sad person is the one on the bottom. April drew the body of the sad person. Boy and GirlThe boy is the one on the left. April drew the eyelashes, bodies and chair at Alleke’s [...]
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Lost in Yonkers
Thalian Hall (seats) Photo by pochacco20. The usher showed us to our seats. We took off our coats and put them on the backs of our chairs. “Good seats,” I said, looking around. Our seats were in the second row. What I meant, though, was they were at the end of the row and near [...]
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Madre, 1895
I’m sitting on the couch in our living room looking at a series of three paintings hanging on the wall. The paintings are not ours. They belong to our landlords. I doubt they are worth very much, but they are originals. They’re signed and dated. All three are landscapes, and although they don’t say where [...]
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Rijksmuseum
This morning Kelly and Amy, friends from Madrid, called over to the house where we’re staying in Amsterdam and asked us if we wanted to go into the city. An hour later as the four of us sat on the metro, I asked if anyone had anything in mind for the afternoon. Amy shrugged her [...]
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