Mary Killen Mary Killen

Dear Mary: how can my daughter defy her friends and stay tattoo-less?

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issue 24 February 2024

Q. My husband had my portrait painted for my 40th birthday and everyone says it is an amazing likeness. Now his business partner wants the same artist to capture his wife on canvas. We are anxious because, as my husband says, the wife is ‘no looker’ and the artist is not one to give a rose-tinted view of one of her sitters.

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