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or so it seemed to me then x We had nothing so grand as Christmas dinner, but there was one of Jack's Astronaut Chickens, plus cranberry dressing, salad-in-a-bag, and rice puddingIlse ate two helpings of everything After we exchanged presents and exclaimed over them - everything was just what we wanted! - I took Ilse upstairs to Little Pink and showed her most of my artistic outputThe drawing I'd done of her boyfriend and the picture of the woman (if it was a woman) in red were tucked away on a high shelf in my bedroom closet, and there they would stay until my daughter was gone I had clipped about a dozen others - mostly sunsets - to squares of cardboard and leaned them 139 against the rolex replica watches walls of the roomShe toured them onceStopped, then toured them againIt was night by then, my big upstairs window full of darknessThe tide was all the way out; the only way you even knew the Gulf was there was by its soft continual sighing as the waves ran up the sand and died "You really did these?" she said at lastShe turned and looked at me in a way that made me uncomfortableIt's the way one person looks at another when a serious re-evaluation is going on "I really did," I said"What do you think?" "They're goodMaybe better than goodThis one-" She bent and very carefully picked up the one that showed the conch sitting on the horizon-line, with yellow-orange sunset light blazing all around handbag chanel itexcuse me, so damn creepy "I think so, too," I said"But really, it's nothing newAll it does is dress up the sunset with a little surrealism Then, inanely, I exclaimed: "Hello, Dal?!" She put back Sunset with Conch, and picked up Sunset with Sophora "Who's seen these?" 140 "Just you and JackShe calls them asustadorJack says it means scary "They're a little scary," she admittedthis pencil you're using will smudgeAnd I think it'll fade if you don't do something to the picturesBut I think you ought to show these to someone who does knowSomeone who can tell you how good they really are I felt flattered but also uncomfortable"I wouldn't know who or where to-" "Ask JackMaybe he knows an art chanel tote handbags gallery that would look at them "Sure, just limp in off the street and say, 'I live out on Duma Key and I've got some pencil sketches - mostly of sunsets, a very unusual subject in coastal Florida - that my housekeeper says are muy asustador'" She put her hands on her hips and cocked her head to one sideIt was how Pam looked when she had no intention of letting a thing goWhen she in fact 141 intended to throw her current argument into fourwheel drive "Father-" "Oh boy, I'm in for it now"You parlayed two pick-ups, a used Korean War bulldozer, and a twenty-thousanddollar loan into a million-dollar businessAre you going to stand there and tell me you couldn't get a few art gallery owners to look discount hermes at your pictures if you really set your mind to it?" She softened "I mean, these are good, DaddyAll I've got for training is one lousy Art Appreciation course in high school, and I know that I said something, but I'm not sure whatI was thinking about my frenzied quick-sketch of Carson Jones, alias The Baptist HummingbirdWould she think that one was also good, if she saw it? But she wasn't going toNot that one, and not the one of the person in the red robe That was what I thought then "Dad, if you had this talent in you all the time, where was it?" 142 "I don't know," I said"And how much talent we're talking about is still open to question "Then get someone to tell you, okay? Someone colourful louis vuitton bag who know

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