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If you’re in Fort Worth, you can go to the art museum — not the one with modern art, but, er, the real one — and look at Caravaggio’s great painting, The Card Sharpers. There are three men in it. One’s young and fresh-faced and naive, and he’s looking over his hand at cards. He doesn’t see that one of his raffish companions, a much older man with glo…

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