you are valuable.

and before she left the city the Latin American art dealer kissed her goodbye once more long and hard then he looked her in the eye and told her you are valuable don’t forget that and kissed her again. As she drove away there was some thing that resonated, knowing the compliment came from a man who judged and assessed the nature and worth of art as an act of life and she smiled and held the sentiment deep in her heart as her car drove in the opposite direction.