A gallery painting bore my daughter’s face—until the truth behind it shattered everything I thought I knew

she might come apart right there.

I stepped closer. “But I need you to tell me something.”

She nodded, trembling.

“Why did you paint my daughter and call it a self-portrait?”

Her fingers tightened around her sleeves.

“Because she was my sister too.”

The words hit harder than I expected.

I had known the girls were close.

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