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The Bluff

I painted this when I was about 16 years old. I remember sitting in mom's kitchen
and listening for the first time to Don McClean's "American Pie". It's oil on Masonite. When I finished it, I gave it to my grandmother who is now 96 years old. She is about to go into an assisted living apartment, so she gave it back last month.
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