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Generosity and Personhood: How the Myth of the Three Graces Inspired My Debut Novel

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Generosity and Personhood: How the Myth of the Three Graces Inspired My Debut Novel
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When I walked toward the Roman statue of the Three Graces in The Metropolitan Museum of Art last month, my eyes began to water. I clocked the familiar details in person for the first time: The contrapposto stance of three sister goddesses, one facing away from the others. The graceful nudity of three women. A gentle marble hand on another’s shoulder.
I first heard of the subject of the statue—the myth of the Three Graces—more than twenty years ago. In high school Latin and art history classes, I

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