Mike Hettwer Photography - Documentary, Archaeology and Dinosaur
826CHI Volunteer Photo Book: My World Project - Part 2: AFFAIR WITH A PAINTER
AFFAIR WITH A PAINTER, Photo and Story by William Nieves
“I was married,” the young woman told me, “but I had a lover.”
She began to tell me of a young man named Gabriel.
“We were very much in love. I was going to leave my husband and elope with him.”
Her eyes began to water. “I got a phone call one day. It was Gabriel. ‘Baby,’ he said in a depressed kind of tone. ‘Baby, I just came from the doctor and… and…,’ I thought he would never tell me. And then, he said it. ‘I have cancer.’ I broke down right there. The worst part was, he was beyond salvation.”
She turned to the wall and touched the painting.
“He was a painter,” she said. “He painted this self-portrait for me to remember him by. He told me that if I waited here for him, he would come back for me.”
Every day she sits and waits. Waits for her love to come and get her.
“I was married,” the young woman told me, “but I had a lover.”
She began to tell me of a young man named Gabriel.
“We were very much in love. I was going to leave my husband and elope with him.”
Her eyes began to water. “I got a phone call one day. It was Gabriel. ‘Baby,’ he said in a depressed kind of tone. ‘Baby, I just came from the doctor and… and…,’ I thought he would never tell me. And then, he said it. ‘I have cancer.’ I broke down right there. The worst part was, he was beyond salvation.”
She turned to the wall and touched the painting.
“He was a painter,” she said. “He painted this self-portrait for me to remember him by. He told me that if I waited here for him, he would come back for me.”
Every day she sits and waits. Waits for her love to come and get her.
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