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You must forgive me if I seem to dwell too much on her physical aspects but I am an artist, accustomed to studying the physical body.

The true artist is like one of those scientists who, from a single bone can reconstruct an animal's entire body.

The artist looks at an ankle, a calf, a bosom and, in his mind's eye, the clothes drop away and he sees her as she really is.

And that is the way I first saw her when my Uncle brought her into his antique store.