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EDGAR DEGAS ~ MY ARTIFICIAL HEART
“And even this heart of mine has something artificial. The dancers have sewn it into a bag of pink satin, pink satin slightly faded, like their dancing shoes.”
17 June 2015
The Entrance of the Masked Dancers, c. 1884.
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