| Glenn Seaborg |
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Lizzie Liles
acrylic on canvas
47" x 54"
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on saturday 5 november 1994
my best friend from 10 years of grammar school and high school gene canzano and lizzie liles got married not to each other but to different people on the same day i attended gene & patty’s ceremony then sped up the coast for lizzie & doug’s reception after the reception wound down a handful of us found ourselves in lizzie & doug’s suite and at some point a perhaps slightly inebriated lizzie asked me “how come we never dated?” it didn’t really seem like an appropriate occasion to say that i fell in love with her the day we met it was another saturday 26 april 1986 i was doing a studio shoot for the teri lewis dance ensemble a modern ballet company lizzie with the radiant face sinuous body line cutting thru space in an |
organic-captivating-enveloping-razor-sharp- kind-of-way and the most obnoxious personality you could ever imagine she was prompt i was late she was urgent i was meticulous she hated “that modern shit” i hated ballet she was obnoxious i was obnoxious it was delicious not since the night i met david wilson had i experienced such an instantaneous (if very different) connection perhaps we never dated because i felt more like a psychologist she’d visit me at the famous rodent theme park where we’d wander till midnight then sit in a huge empty rehearsal hall and talk about her awful boyfriend till 3 or 4 in the morning today when her baby cried she handed me the “1998 photo album” i discovered the life she’d lived while i wasn’t looking perhaps it’s the people you never dated that you miss most of all |
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8 May 00
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