Roy Lichtenstein | Stepping Out | The Metropolitan Museum of Art (metmuseum.org)
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Stepping Out
Oldest NYC Grandson – 11/14/22
…and, yes, she was different, more alive than most of the girls he knew, well, all really, and that was good. She was like…a bird, yes, but one you would not want to cage…for in a cage she would die, or…what was really alive and different about her would die away in a cage, and he wouldn’t want that, he doesn’t want her not to be different, because… His grandmother once said – he loved her and missed her so – that with people, like everything else in life, you need to play the cards that you are dealt. And maybe his grandmother had played all the cards dealt to her, and at times she was really alive and funny and she would rub his tummy, as she always said. And he would laugh and he would smile, and she would smile and then look sad and hugged him close for a while, and say “Ah, mi tesero”. And she was different and she was only funny and sad together when he was alone together with her. And she was different…and like his grandmother, Priscilla was different, for she…was not like any card he had ever held in his hand and he didn’t know how to play her…and he didn’t know if he ever would, for he knew she could only be happy being free and flying away and flying back, and he knew this only being fifteen, and when she looked at him, she really looked at him like no one else ever did and she smiled and he smiled back…and he was different, this he knew, like her because…because it was as if they were painted with the same brush, with the same colors.
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