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SWBTATTReg

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4. Nice, and from what I hear, they have all of his pictures too, he's never got rid of them, sold them, or anything, just

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Wed Nov 12, 2025, 12:22 AM

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simply set them aside along w/ the other paintings and kept on going.

I miss him, I love his wandering around 'speech' while he was painting, it sounded almost like painting poetry.

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