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  • All right, all right. I can pick up a cue.

  • Picture it.

  • Sicily, 1912.

  • A beautiful, young peasant girl with clear, olive skin

  • meets an exciting but penniless Spanish artist.

  • There's an instant attraction.

  • They laugh, they sing.

  • They slam down a few boilermakers.

  • Shortly afterwards, he's arrested for showing her how he can hold his palette...

  • ...without using his hands.

  • But I digress.

  • He paints her portrait d they make passionate love.

  • She spends much of the next day in the shower with a loofah sponge,

  • scrubbing his fingerprints off her body.

  • She sees the portrait and is insulted.

  • It looks nothing like her. And she storms out of his life forever.

  • That peasant girl was me...

  • and that painter was Pablo Picasso.

  • Ma, I have a feeling you're lying.

  • Be positive, Dorothy.

  • OK, I'm positive you're lying.

All right, all right. I can pick up a cue.

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