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[James Lucas @JamesLucasIT]

This is one of the most famous paintings in the world, yet few people know the story of the woman holding the parasol…

It was painted by Claude Monet in 1875, and she was his wife, Camille, out for a walk with their young son Jean near their home in Argenteuil, just outside Paris. Monet painted them outdoors on a windy day, from below, so that Camille stands against the sky, her veil and dress caught by the wind, looking down at us as if we had just called her name.

It feels less like a moment a husband didn’t want to forget.

Four years later, Camille was gone. After a long illness, she died in September 1879, at just 32. Five days before the end, a priest blessed the marriage she and Monet had made in a simple civil ceremony nine years earlier. And there, at her bedside, the artist did the only thing he knew how to do: he painted her one last time. Years later, he confessed that even then, sitting beside her, he caught himself studying the colors that death was leaving on her face, a moment he never managed to forget.

By then, she had appeared in some fifty of his paintings: in a green silk dress at nineteen, standing at a window, walking through the poppies with their little boy. Without ever meaning to, he had painted the story of her whole life with him.

Monet lived almost fifty more years, but on this canvas it will always be that summer afternoon, with Camille turning to look at him in the wind…

[Esco Viejo @KooFoo238208]

@Outkick "We're taking your QB Heintschel in the portal"
"Yeah I know. Talk to you later."

[Esco Viejo @KooFoo238208]

@messymason2021 @BuckRight Slosh sideways and especially backwards and forwards. Imagine the all-ways slosh during turbulence. The plane would quickly become uncontrollable. Also burning through that much fuel continuously would produce unworkable amounts of heat.

[Esco Viejo @KooFoo238208]

@mickeykoke Duran is surprisingly bad at defense and has proven to be a mediocre batter and is sketchy clubhouse-wise. Kwan too small and is going downhill earlier than expected because of it. Crone is fantastic defensively and they won't pay him to sit.

[Esco Viejo @KooFoo238208]

@Outkick Cignetti with the fist pump to the drum lolol

[Baseball Bros @BaseballBros]

Not only should this be part of the All-Star break, but Ichiro should compete in it every single year so that modern TTO hitters can see what real bat control looks like

[Esco Viejo @KooFoo238208]

@SDUTKrasovic Will he be there a year from now? He seems the next IT coach.

[Esco Viejo @KooFoo238208]

@JayPosnerSD Except those tickets were unsold when most Dodgers fans figured THEY'D be the ones sweeping at this game or going up 3-1. They didn't buy them and decide to not show or ask for a refund.
21 million people in the Greater Los Angeles area to draw from.

[Esco Viejo @KooFoo238208]

@NationPadres Lol so true.

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@JayPosnerSD He gets a hold of himself every once in a while. He just plain shouldn't be doing Dodgers in playoffs. It's not his fault. He practically lives with those guys 10 months a year. Plus it's not as if he's so good at it they must have him.

[Esco Viejo @KooFoo238208]

@NationPadres Those are the same faces the senior citizens had when they found out their money was used on a baseball team.

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@mickeykoke More talented? They are clearly less talented than half of MLB teams. Weird, clunky speech. I honestly thought he'd be better at it than that.

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@Padres_Burner69 The high and wide shots show upper deck at 60% capacity.

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@SDUTKrasovic Over/Under on Empty Seat Total = 17k

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@BNightengale Over/Under on Empty Seat Total = 17k

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@JamesLucasIT Very high "Made Me Quit" rating among would-be painters.

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@JayPosnerSD Pretty clear whoever decides doesn't watch actual games. Muncy over Machado? Hilarious. And maybe Merrill should play it up like Petey McHustle and climb walls for no reason. Then make The Angry Face so ppl know how serious he was about that ball 30 yards over the fence.

[Esco Viejo @KooFoo238208]

@AntonioOsunaFan @mickeykoke Thanks for the input. Oh - Have to explain this to most Dodgers fans: If the Dodgers lose this playoff to the Brewers they will be done playing for the year and won't have a game the next day. If you understand this already please explain to others so they're not mixed up.

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@AntonioOsunaFan @mickeykoke He magically turned in to a great manager?