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Old 11-11-2020, 07:28 AM   #16 (permalink)
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Why? She’s dead. She doesn’t know it exists.

It’s what we think of it.
It's like making a statue of Coltrane playing the guitar. It's not relevant to the subject unless the artist has some other intention with it. And doubly similar in that it's likely an attempt to gain relevancy because nobody cares about statues that aren't being torn down.
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