This Valentine's Day, my heart goes out to the memory of a sad, frustrated hack commercial artist, working for Mattel in the 1980s, crudely sketching and painting a woman in the likeness of a doll, in a classic pin-up pose, except for little children.
He adds the detail of a seductive little anklet, thinking perhaps of Barbara Stanwyck in Double Indemnity, knowing he will die without ever knowing the touch of such a woman.

geyser for COTW.