Cursed by Michael Mcmanus

Cursed
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A strong portrait, and I'm glad you were lumbered with its subject and not me!

Thanks Robert. Be careful.

You are an Irish McManus by descent I take it Michael? (-:

I wonder where she thought your "third eye" was Mick!😁

Scary story Michael! you had a lucky escape...... even if you did lose your toe nails! Good portrait.

How frightening for you. Good job you only lost your toe nails. Your portrait is rather fearsome, someone you would want the stay well clear of Micha l.

That's right Jim. I wondered that Adele. Thanks Jennifer, yes, I've had a few lucky escapes.

What a wonderful sketch Michael you heart breaker you!!!

Thanks Louise. All I want is to be left alone.

Scary...should have bought the clothes pegs and sent her on her way. You need to learn to say no sometimes....but the sketch works well. Looks great through my third eye half closed.

Thanks Andre. I trust your third eye half closed.

I like this Michael , that's a very unusual story though , at least you don't need to worry about ingrowing toe nails though . I had 4 operations through them . Aside from the story though Michael it a very powerful piece well done.

It’s rather like a Van Gogh drawing Michael.

Thanks John. I'm surely not as good as that?

What a load of blarney Michael lol, but its a great story and a really bold drawing.

Thanks Linda. I forgot to say that my mental health was damaged too.

Great drawing Michael, so sorry you had to go through all that! You do pick 'em 😧

Thanks Carole. I've just been unlucky.

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06/11/2017
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Pencil sketch of a gypsy girl who became obsessed with me. She came to our village with others and stayed a week. She said I was charismatic and that I had a third eye. She was madly in love with me and wanted me to leave with them in their caravan. But the travelling ways weren't for me. As she left she called out a curse and I immediately fell sick. For the next three days I lost all my bodily functions, spoke in a strange language and when I came out of intensive care all my toe nails fell off and have never grown back again.

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Michael Mcmanus

I was born in 1946. In the 1960s and part of the 70s I was an airman in the Royal Navy, Fleet Air Arm. I joined Durham Constabulary in 1971. In 1999 I retired from policing and began teaching sociology and criminology at Durham University with emphasis on policing and researching crime. I am drawn…

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