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How They Met Themselves is a short 9-page story about Desire first published in the Vertigo: Winter's Edge #3 anthology. It was later reprinted in collections such as Sandman Deluxe Edition vol. 2.

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The plot follows the imaginary story behind the creation of a real-world painting of the same name. Around the New Year of 1862, the artist Dante Gabriel Rossetti is on the way to have a countryside picnic with his wife and former model Elizabeth Siddal and their friend Algernon Charles Swinburne. In the train they meet a mysterious stranger with golden eyes whom they decide to call Dolores. Dolores tells them that, according to the folk belief, whoever goes to the nearby forest will meet their true love.

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