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$ 500.00 USDForget Me, Not© Every picture needs a story and here is mine. My old friend Raul found Jose as a small boy at the dump, not looking for clothes or fun things, but digging for scraps of food missed by the other poor villagers and the birds of Puebla, Mexico; looking all day just to extend his young life one more hour. Jose was born with facial deformaties. He was so ugly that his own parents brought him to the dump when he was a toddler. He was brought there as a piece of trash and thrown out to die. They were ashamed of how he looked and how the other families of the village considered them cursed. Their thoughts were to throw him away and remove the curse and humiliation that they suffered. Some villagers did take pity on him and gave him some of their old food. It eased his crying and helped, so they thought, ease their guilt. Some how Jose survived long enough for Raul to find him. Raul took Jose in as his own and asked that Jose call him ‘Uncle’. Raul used Jose to help around his canvas shop known as Tienda de Lona. Raul taught Jose everything about canvas; how to make it and then how to take the canvas and make it into something useful such as sails for small boats, larger ships, awnings, small tents and other valuable needs. Raul told the boy that the best thing you could ever do with canvas is to paint a picture of life. And the story continues...
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