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I was in the Musée d'Orsay in 2016 and I was hopelessly sad. I had just split from a boyfriend when neither of us had wanted to because he was moving away. I was on a three-week immersion program in France, being perfectly rotten: too cool for group activities and fairly depressed. I found myself in front of “Vue de toits (Effet de neige)” (essentially view of roofs tops, snow effect) by Gustave Caillebotte, which is, by the standards of the Musée d'Orsay, an extraordinarily unassuming picture.

I was in the Musée d'Orsay in 2016 and I was hopelessly sad. I had just split from a boyfriend when neither of us had wanted to because he was moving away. I was on a three-week immersion program in France, being perfectly rotten: too cool for group activities and fairly depressed. I found myself in front of “Vue de toits (Effet de neige)” (essentially view of roofs tops, snow effect) by Gustave Caillebotte, which is, by the standards of the Musée d'Orsay, an extraordinarily unassuming picture. It depicts, as you might expect, some Parisian roofs covered in snow. But for whatever reason, looki

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