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Ralph was sentenced to twenty five years to life.  As I painted him, finishing his portrait, I knew that it was possibly the last time I'd ever talk with him.  The day after I painted this, he was moved from Riverhead Jail, to a prison upstate New York, somewhere.  As we worked on this portrait together, Speedy sat to the side.  Words were intruders; we spent four hours in silence, painting.