Jenny $. Give me your greatest love story: Jack D. was dating a girl, and on our second date she made me dinner at her apartment. Sometime during the evening | walked around her place looking at the art she had on the wall. One print looked very familiar: She said she found it at a thrift store a few years back and it was the first decoration she bought when she moved to this state. Then it hit me why it looked familiar: my grandmother had painted it. I’d been looking at the original my entire life. My grandmother was a prolific local artist, but it was the only painting she ever had made into a Anyway; we’ve been married 16 years now; and the original piece hangs in our house. print.