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Show 84 "Did you draw these?'' She nodded. "Today?" "This summer. I can't do it fast. Look at them if you want to." They were drawings of horses and I went through them all and looked at each one. Most were not realistic like photographs, and the first ones were done with lots of whorls and other curves. I hadn't known that horses had so many curves. Then there was one drawing so real that I could have gone out to the corral and picked out the horse. Then the straight lines, quite a few drawings using mostly straight lines. I kept looking at them, seeing shin bones and planes of shoulder and face that I'd never seen before. Or saw and didn't realize I'd seen. "You could say something," she said. "I didn't know you could draw so good." "They're not good." "They look good to me. These are kinda straight though." "That's the way horses are sometimes." "Like Miss Bowman." Miss Bowman taught us English, and Kate smiled. "It makes the horses look, I don't know, sorta stuck up." "Proud. Yes. Don't horses look like that?" "I guess. The curvy ones don't look that way, they look . . "How?" "I don't know." I looked at one of the curvy ones. "Like they're playing, I guess. Sort of playful." "Horses are like that sometimes too. I guess they are more curvy than straight though." "Like you." She looked at me in surprise. I was a l i t t l e surprised myself, saying that. |