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brother has gone missing. Behind this portrait lies a shocking secret. The third painting exposes the cruelest part of Xiao Xiang's childhood: the unwilling separation between the two brothers and the brother's permanent disappearance, and represents the loss Xiao Xiang has experienced, including the separation from his brother, his birth mother, his birth father, and himself.
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