Post #164476 by Formikahini on Wed, Jun 8, 2005 12:37 PM

Thanks to Steven, the wonderful friend who introduced Kilikopela to his beautiful wahine Brittanie, I now have an August Holland "Pearl of Wisdom"! That boy is nothing but good luck!

He'd seen one at Kilikopela's home, so when he saw one at a garage sale, he immediately zero'd in.

"So what do you want for this?," indicating the very badly scratched, filthy, framed print.

"Do you you know anything about it?" the old black gentleman asked. "It's not worth a million dollars, is it?"

"I don't know, but I like it."

"How about $3? That ok?"

Steven quickly hands him $5, not having any ones, and tells him to keep the change. He shows it to me later, and I squeel, "OMG! A 'Pearl of Wisdom'! OMG! OMG!" He tells me he got it at "Black man garage sale - the best kind", and I gush so admiringly, he gives it to me! "It belongs to you. You can 'owe me,' baby!" (Ya have to know the guy.)

I am now sexually endebted for a $5 gift.

We got some 'before' photos and I've already done some not-too-bad touching up on it. Cleaned up pretty nicely. In fact, I'm so happy with the results, I'm thinking of becoming a tiki-retouching artist on the side. When I ever get around to developing the roll AND learning to post, I'll post the before-and-afters.