"A few months later," Porter continued, "we invited Georgia to our home in Tesuque for Thanksgiving dinner. Aline and I knew how much Georgia loved that stone. We also knew her well enough to suspect she had not forgotten about it. And so we conducted an experiment. We set the black stone on our coffee table. O'Keeffe entered the room. Her eyes caught the stone. We disappeared into the kitchen to prepare the food, and when we retuned, the stone was gone. Georgia said nothing. I said nothing. Neither did Aline. The next time I saw my black smooth stone, it was a photograph in Life magazine taken by John Loengard, in the palm of O'Keeffe's hand."





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