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🗓️ 14 July 2023
⏱️ 13 minutes
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0:00.0 | So, when I was 12 years old, my parents and I, we went to Italy and we went to Rome. |
0:09.9 | And it was really, really cool because I came to these art museums that they had. |
0:15.9 | And they said, oh, you're blind. |
0:18.4 | And I said, yes, do you have any features that can make the museums interesting and accessible |
0:23.3 | to blind people? |
0:24.3 | And they said, yes, you can touch all our sculpture. |
0:27.4 | And I said, wait a minute, all of it. |
0:29.4 | And they said, yeah, go ahead. |
0:31.2 | And I said, whoa, whoa, whoa, you're not going to give me gloves? |
0:33.7 | And they were like, no, no, no gloves. |
0:35.8 | And I was like, okay, fine, great, awesome. |
0:40.2 | And so we go into this first gallery. |
0:43.1 | And this gallery is filled with these busts of Roman emperors. |
0:47.1 | And they are stone busts. |
0:49.3 | They are made of kind of rough, human marble that has been smoothed over with age. |
0:56.3 | They had all these aqualine noses and these bushy eyebrows and these big ears. |
1:01.4 | And we go through five galleries of this. |
1:03.9 | And fifth gallery, okay, we're done. |
1:05.5 | The exit, the exit is here. |
1:07.3 | We can leave now. |
1:08.4 | And mom says, hey, you know, I didn't realize that there is a whole upstairs section. |
1:12.9 | There's a stairwell here. |
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