The Paradox of Love: How a Souvenir Shop in Wytheville Sparked Reflections on Pygmalion

If you love something you make, you want it to exist separately from you.

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As we walked around a quaint souvenir shop in Wytheville, VA, called Wilderness Road World Trading, I found myself gazing at some of the statues for minutes. Dancers looked like they had frozen into their position a moment before I glanced at them. Faces looked so real that it seemed they could raise their eyes back at you any moment. They…