This is my favorite painting of all time. Pinkie by Thomas Lawrence. The girl in the picture was actually on eleven years old in real life and her name was Sarah.

My  Mother had this painting and Blue Boy over her bed when I was a small child. When I would take a nap on her bed I would talk to them as if they were real and stare into those pictures as I began to drift off for my naps. Sometimes I would pretend I was the Pink Lady. I loved her gown and thought she was so pretty. Now that I look back I see resemblance between my Mother and Pinkie. Maybe that is what I seen all along as I looked into the Lady's eyes, was actually my own Mother's.

I have had a fascination with dolls even since then and it was because my Mother lay me down in her room where the Pink Lady watched over me. Now my Mother watches over me from Heaven above.