Three Decades Later, The Face He Painted Became His Bride
Diana Martin and Hector Garcia met as children in their native Colombia after he had painted her portrait.
By Linda Marx
June 18, 2021
"The first time Diana Martin saw Hector Garcia was in 1985 through a window from her family home in Pereira, Colombia, where she spotted a boy she didn’t recognize riding a bike in front of their house. She was 11 and had heard from friends that a teenage artist who lived several streets away painted her portrait.
'Naturally, I wanted to meet this boy and find out why he painted my face,' said Ms. Martin, 47, a social worker at the Agency for Persons with Disabilities in Deltona, Fla."
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