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When my father died, I felt loss and sadness, to be sure, but
not the turmoil or devastation that my brothers and stepmother showed. With
romance, I felt pangs of love, yet never the passion that overcame my friends.
But then I discovered art. I saw for the first time nature and
pure feelings expressed in a form I could understand. A painting was a
translation of the language of my heart. My emotions were all there—but in a
painting, a sculpture. I went to museum after museum, into the labyrinths of
rooms and that of my own soul. And there they were—my feelings, and all of
them natural, spontaneous, truthful, and free. My heart cavorted within shapes
and shadows and splashes,
From Saving Fish From Drowning by Amy Tan. Copyright Amy Tan 2005. All rights reserved. Reproduced by permission of Putnam Publishing. No part of this book maybe reproduced without written permission from the publisher.
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