Found

Two years ago, thieves yanked Edward Munch's two most famous paintings, The Scream and Madonna, right off the walls of the Munch Museum in Oslo. I watched the news with interest, but what surprised me the most was the attitude of the Norwegians. With all the nonchalance in the world, they were like, "Oh yeah, I heard about the robbery." My art history self reacted with a bit more indignation, but nothing seemed to rile the partner in conversation. As if talking about a cat that went astray, the Norwegians comforted me and said that they'll be back. After all, thieves had stolen The Scream two times before.

And so they were right.

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