Odds are that you'll never be able to afford a Van Gogh in your lifetime, even if your Microsoft options did make you rich. This is what makes the Seattle Art Museum so wonderful both millionaires and starving arts majors can eyeball the same masterpieces from close range, each wondering what would happen if they grabbed a painting off the wall and ran like hell.
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Victrola Coffee & Art, Intiman Theatre and "Fremont." Keep saving your pennies!