Marilyn was my first Muse. We met in High School. When I went down to L.A. in 1970, I gave her call. She was very involved, and we did not speak for very long. At 3:00 A.M. in the morning I took a walk along the Venice pier with Christine and her boyfriend Michael. I stopped and looked down at the waves breaking on the sand. Marilyn and I spent much time at Santa Monica beach.
“Goodbye, Marilyn.” I said, and then asked;
“Where are you?”
I was asking for her to come into my life ‘The One’ who would replace Marilyn.
When I saw Christine walking back, I walked before them. Suddenly a figure came at me out of a darkened doorway. I gasped when I saw her, the most beautiful woman I ever lay eyes on.
“Can I walk with you?” She asked.
“I was expecting you.”
“What did you mean?” Queried Rena.
Christine worked from images cut-out from fashion magazines and out under a projector. Marilyn was a model. Rena told me one of her older sisters was going to appear on the cover of a magazine.
Marilyn made her own clothing, and clothes for Hollywood stars. She made the red dress she is wearing above taken at my wedding reception. That is Shannon Rosamond sitting next to her famous mother who invited Marilyn to come sew at her home along with my mother who was born Rosemary Rosamond.
When I began a portrait of Rena a year ago, she came and visited me, her spirit. For weeks the young Rena went where I went. I called Marilyn and told her I think Rena is dead. I think she died in a car accident.
“There is much grief.”
Jon Presco
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Jon Presco
Rosamond Press 
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