We pushed through crowds and finally saw her. The famous enigmatic smile shone from a glass enclosure.
“She is so tiny,” I said.
Tamp down your expectations because the Mona Lisa is smaller than any United States First Lady portrait.
It measures less than three feet by three feet.
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