The man in the painting
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Jamie moves into a new house, it's very old, and needs to be spruced up. She goes through countless boxes of antiques, but finds a painting that is impossibly difficult to part with. She decides to keep it, and one night the man in the painting speaks to her.
"I must be going crazy here."
"No darling, this is real."
"There's no way you're speaking to me, you're just a painting."
"Well would you rather I stop?"
"No! Please don't!"
He laughs, and smiles with a strange charm she could not explain. He was the man in the painting, and she was the woman who loved him.
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