re: Seriously, what makes the Mona Lisa such a big deal?

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To this day I regret wasting a day in Paris at the Lourve looking for that postage stamp of a painting.

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Scott.... how long ago were you there? I was there back in 1960. We had been in a couple of rooms and had not seen the painting. We headed down another long hall that had few pictures hanging on the walls. When I got to the next room, my Mom called and said to come back down the hall. I had walked right past it. There was nothing special about where it was put on the wall. There was no protective cover around it. I think I could have reached up and taken it off the wall. And.... we were the only people anywhere in that hall.