Maiden, mother, monster

I too, overflow

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I FIRST SAW her when I was twenty-one.

She was wearing a knitted purple cardigan over a cream collared shirt buttoned to her long throat. Her dark hair was parted down the middle. I studied the angles of the painting, the flattening. How it defied order. I felt the nearness of her, with her careful hands holding her knitting, her attention focused on her work. The Sock Knitter (1915)by Grace Cossington Smith.

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