Upon staring at an anique portrait of James Garfield's family

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He was in a grandiose chair in the center of the photograph staring directly at me, or at the pear-shaped thrift store clerk arranging tapes and yellowing books behind me. He looked stately, as a former president should, in his chair with his legs crossed and both hands firmly gripping the chair's arms, but his eyes had faded with the photograph

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[zoe_snow]

i like this. fiction or non-fiction though...? or are you turning it into both? who is James Garfield?