One of my parents’ close friends when I was young. Tall and handsome. He was an artist who did paintings of southwestern wildlife and made a pretty decent living doing it. I remember walking into his studio when he was working on the painting he would later let my mom name, it was a mare and her foal. I knew I wanted to be an artist after that day. I didn’t know it wouldn’t be drawing horse pictures in my sun soaked studio.

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