Salvador Dali Beating Heart

It was 1965 or 1966 and I was doing what I normally did on my lunch hour from working at the bank, I was shopping at the local department store probably looking for the latest chemise dress or pillbox hat. I got off the elevator and saw a sign pointing to a temporary art exhibit the store was hosting, so I gave it some thought and decided that a little culture on my lunch hour would be a nice change of pace, the Junior Miss department would have to wait until tomorrow. It was a small exhibit, I would have enough time to see everything and get back to work on time.
Lovely paintings and sculptures lined the walls of the two small rooms but there, in the center of one room, was a glass case with small works of art and some jewelry. My eyes were drawn and then fixed on a gold heart brooch with rubies in the center, and the rubies were beating, pulsating like a human heart. The card next to it read: Salvador Dali - The Royal Heart.
That was my first encounter with the work of a genius. I visited that Dali exhibit every day during my lunch hour until it was discontinued, always stopping at The Royal Heart.