After a pause, she looked around the studio at all the paintings and continued, "Your feelings for me are nothing but an obsession. You've been looking for me all these years because of the promise we had when we were young. That's what human beings are like–the harder it is to get something, the more we want to get it, so much so that you unknowingly cast the object of your desire on a pedestal. The truth is there's nothing special about me at all. I'm just an ordinary woman."

As she spoke, sh