Yes, it’s true, I have a Monet hanging on the bathroom wall. The painting is titled “The Garden at Vétheui.” If you look carefully, you can see the bathroom window and the photographer reflected in the glass. Painted in 1880, or 81, depending on who you believe, it was part of a project the artist started to paint things he enjoyed before he died. His name is Claude-Oscar Monet, or Oscar-Claude Monet, again depending on whom you believe. Something you might not know, neither Claude nor Oscar was his middle name. Middle names were not used for hundreds of years and didn’t come back in to vogue until the nineteenth century. In fact, only three of our first seventeen presidents had middle names. Yeah, go ahead, think about it. What was George Washington’s middle name? Didn’t have one. How about Abraham Lincoln? Nope. Thomas Jefferson? I wish I didn...
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