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What Kind of Man Was He?
The author and her husband Arnold Mesches in 1983. Photo: Jill Ciment When Jill Ciment met the painter Arnold Mesches in 1970, she was his student in a small Beverly Hills drawing class. She was 16 and uncannily independent, more than ready to escape her …