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They say a picture's worth a thousand words, but a portrait never speaks.

Art, for all its splendor, captures the soul like a stuffed animal.

A memory.

Shot and mounted and stitched with technique.

Life may rest on an easel,

but sitting too long, it begins to dry,

to die of thirst.

And in this story, paint is poison. A bitter toast of embalming fluid for those interred to the oval portrait.

He was older than her by a lot.

Sometimes you see couples and you just can't put it together.

I mean, does she really sleep with that aging hipster?

I know looks aren't everything, but she was a knockout. One of those girls you look at and wonder what it must be like to wake up every morning and see that in the mirror.

She was perfect. Porcelain's skin, blue-eyed, with a blinding smile.

You see movie stars with those kinds of smiles. They use them like weapons.

They wield them on red carpets and talk shows and fire them at us mortals. But this girl's smile was

not a weapon. It was pure, an expression of joy and kindness.

I couldn't get enough of it.

I stalked her on the live stream feed from her hipster boyfriend's loft.

I became obsessed with her.

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