The Fortune in the Ugly Frame
I returned to 2016 with USD 5000 and recognized a painting from a catalogue eight years in the future. The ugly frame cost almost nothing. Proving what was inside—and keeping twelve adult women from becoming twelve unfinished promises—would take considerably more nerve.
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Ray returns from 2026 toearly 2016 in Tortola and buys two uncertain-attribution works he remembers from a later private art catalogue. With conservation cofounder Mia he documents their provenance, realizes a first study profit and resists a premature low offer for the portrait. Twelve adult women create warm dates, humour and difficult choices. The 2016 Pier Park opening confirms the return, while the 2017 hurricane interrupts plans and makes the people around him more important than a waiting fortune. A documented 2018 sale finally brings wealth, a home and a chosen future withLea.