Paint
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Last published Mon, Dec 23, 2013
Twenty-three year old Simone Persell is out of art school with a purpose : she wants to find her place in the art world.
A showing at up and coming modern art gallery, Arthropologie, in Greenwich Village gets her foot in the door and catches her heart in an awkward place.
Simone realizes that there are a lot of lessons to be learnt, people to reconnect with, broken hearts and true love to understand, and it it can't be done without...
Paint.
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