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Show CHRYSALIS PAGE 176 greatest frustration. I knew something was wrong. I've had several close friends 'disappear' since. I was engaged at the time, and my fiance couldn't handle my getting tired and my pain - so that didn't last. I don't want to have to apologise to others for my limitations." Marianne looks well now, although she is often in pain from arthritis. "This is so much a part of me I sometimes wonder what I'd do without it," she says. "Pain, I'm not too terribly fond of. I don't think I'm 'used to' it - I'm just trying to ignore it. I've had to accept it." She snaps the paintbox shut and wipes her hands off on her smock. "This is Timpanogos." She indicates a painting of a mountain all in lavender and blue. "Timpanogos means 'stone people.' An Indian legend says Timpanogos is the body of a princess who killed herself because the boy she loved was kidnapped and killed by another brave. A sort of Rocky Mountain Romeo and Juliet. That one over there is of a French coastline. The portrait I'm doing just for fun," she says. The portrait is of a pig, bigger than life and twice as bristly. "I'm going to give that to a cop I know." she says, smiling. "I don't waste my time. I only do what I really want to do. I'm more of a loner now. I don't want things - or money. |