Reply #7: I absolutely love Maxfield Parrish. As a child my ideas about feminine beauty were totally

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defined by him.

The first time I saw the woman who would become my wife I thought to myself that she reminded me of a figure out of Parrish.

It's not why I married her, but it is what drove me to make sure I met her.

I still treasure a picture of her in which she assumed a Parrish kind of pose, this one in fact:



Ecstasy indeed.

But I did not mean to distract from this important thread about a tragic situation.