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FITZGEREL@aol.com (FITZGEREL@aol.com)
Sun, 13 Sep 1998 00:34:28 EDT
The wealthy wife of a very successful Jewish businessman
went to the portrait artist for her first sitting. The portrait,
a gift for her husband. She explained to the artist what
she wanted:
"You should paint me like I am. These little wrinkles,
you put them on your canvas. The lines under my eyes,
the flab on my arms, the turn in my nose, and the mole
on my cheek, they all stay....BUT on my hands you put
lots of rings with big diamonds and emeralds and bright
jewels. Around my neck you put chains of gold and
diamonds. Do you understand?"
The artist looked at her in earnest and asked why she
should want such detail of real life in her physical
appearance, but adorn herself with the phony jewelry.
She replied: "When I die my husband will re-marry.
The new wife, she should go crazy looking for the
jewels".