His drawings and paintings didn’t suggest any kind of special talent. But they weren’t terrible either. They made Rié think of the pictures drawn by the boy who had been the best artist in her class at middle school. For most people, drawing pictures was something you did during arts and crafts time until you graduated from middle school and then immediately gave it up. His work was what you would expect from a random adult if you handed them a paintbrush and drawing paper out of the blue, employing technique that had not evolved since adolescence. Yet while everyone else had stopped, for some
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