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"Well, look," said the visiting artist finally. "Your composition in the drawings is ... okay. I can be honest with you, right? But these paintings seem to me... sort of little-girlish? Do you see what I'm saying?"
I looked at the pictures he had spread out on the table. It wasn't that I couldn't see what he meant. "The thing is," I said, "it wasn't so long ago that I was a little girl."