This story takes place in New York City where two young
women share an apartment. They, like all the tenants in their building, are
artists who earn their daily break making drawings for magazine advertisements.
All the artists, though, hope to paint a masterpiece, someday.
One of the girls has come down with pneumonia. She isn't in
a hospital (as she would be today) but is being nursed by her roommate. The
doctor has visited the apartment and advises the healthy girl that her ill
friend will only recover if she has the will to live.
The sick girl is in bed staring out the window. On this
rainy November day, she is staring through the window watching leaves fall from
a vine on the opposite building wall. She announces that when the last leaf
falls, she will die. What happens next in the story is a miracle and shows the
beauty of self-sacrifice and the spirit of the human condition.
Here are 4 pieces that will be featured in the upcoming
collection.
I will post more pieces this week.
Caniglia
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