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This was for a swap-bot challenge to introduce yourself, through images, to someone else. I put my 5-yr-old self, framed by my favorite color, purple in the middle. Then I assembled 8 of my favorite things--which, going clockwise, are horror literature (Edgar Allan Poe stamp on background of the famous opening para of "The Fall of the House of Usher"); horror film (the classic, surprisingly non-gory, "Texas Chainsaw Massacre"); writing (favorite fountain pen, a red-&-white Bexley lying on a letter I wrote); Patti Smith (rock-musician/poet/artist extraordinaire); sharks (a beautiful blacktip reefer); collage art (scissors); the warrior goddess Durga (from Hindu pantheon); and appreciating fine art (detail of painting by Gordon Onslow Ford).