Today we shall meet my mother.

The portrait I start to paint below is a vivid one; my mother was a vivid person and very colourful. Certainly, she made an impression when you would meet her: beautiful face, 5’7″, slender and shapely, she was a beauty, but her vivacity and intense interest in other people – in YOU, you fascinating thing, you! – were irresistible. I want you to meet her but really, it is I who wish to get reacquainted. She died more than 13 years ago, but her legacies and many stories live on. Let us begin.

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