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During my college years, I went to the art museum with my then-boyfriend. He was genuinely interested in some of the old paintings. So interested, that he started touching and pushing them with his fingers, to see if the centuries-old oil paint would crack. The curator intervened promptly and scolded him. But I was so horrified by his gesture, that I looked the other direction and pretended we were not together.