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Tara
The idea of a self-made person is absurd, a myth, yet that’s exactly how
people described me. As I walked from my office to the contemporary
art gallery of the museum, the muted click of my heels echoed in the
silent hallways. This sound of broken stillness ruffled my already unsettled
mind. No one could be truly self-made. There were forces supporting you,
rooting for you. Of course, I had worked hard and tirelessly to get here, but
nothing I had accomplished would’ve been possible without the support of
people who loved me and believed in me. Parents, teachers, friends, lovers.
A sibling now estranged. Sometimes, it was luck. Sometimes, a staunch
mentor.
Dr. Hadden waited by my painting in the East Wing. The slight smile
gracing her ageless face and the fleeting gleam of admiration in her eyes
were high praise if you knew her.
“Thank you,” I said, sliding in beside her. It was all I needed to say.
She patted my shoulder. “This is momentous, Tara. I hope you’re proud of
yourself,” she said, touching the plaque with my name on it in yet another
validation of my achievement.
Very soon, the makeshift cardboard would be replaced with a metal plate,
engraved with my name and the title of the work, Love and Loss, a title I
now regretted. Almost as much as I regretted selling it the way I did: for a
covetable five-figure sum, but to the one person who shouldn’t own it. The
one person who actually knew what I had captured on the bold linen
canvas. Own, such a crass word for an emotion so beautiful. I sighed
silently, clutching my clammy hands into fists.
“Susan will bring him in.” I heard Dr. Hadden’s voice again. Susan was
her executive assistant. “I hope you don’t mind. He insisted on meeting you
here.”
Of course he had. He loved a grand entrance, and he never had trouble
getting everyone and everything to bend to his will.
“Do you know him?” I asked.
She nodded. “He’s been a generous donor for the past few years. A wellconnected man. A decent one, I’ve heard. His patronage can put you in the
limelight, Tara.”
I knew that limelight. I had blinked in its glare once before. I managed a
gracious nod, but Dr. Hadden read my face with the same quick, discerning
eye that had made her the director of this art museum in Dallas, and of
numerous others before that.
“Make good use of this connection.” She delivered the curt advice in her
heavy voice, at once commanding and kind.
Her short hair was not completely silver yet, but she had always given me
a fairy godmother vibe. Not that I would ever dare say it to her face. She’d
swat off that moniker with haste. We had our generational differences when
it came to ideas of femininity, but she’d had my back since she’d realized,
years ago, that I was more than a brown, immigrant, pretty-face.
I was a brown, immigrant pretty-face who was talented, hardworking, and
knew her shit. And I had continued to live up to her high standards.
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