PORTRAIT FROM MY EX
I got the portrait up there a few years ago from an ex who I’ll be referring to as Guy in this story. “THANK YOU FOR SAYING YES” No, it wasn’t a marriage proposal, Guy was just thanking me for saying yes to being his girlfriend… LOL. The twist to this drawing is that it was drawn by a guy who had been asking me out (however subtly) for years. Okay, let me give you the full gist here. I sort of had a school-father, Uncle B, back in university. Uncle B had a roommate called Jim (not his real name). At some point, my younger brother (let’s call him Sean ) was staying with my school-father and his friend. Guy was trying to be a “big sister’s boyfriend” to my brother so he visited Sean a lot. On one of those visits, he stumbled on Jim’s art works – craft, drawings, etc. Oblivious to how Jim felt about me, he contracted him to make a portrait of his girlfriend, Me . Jim had no choice, it was business right? Besides, it wasn’t like Guy knew I was Jim’s love interest . ...
