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The other week, I was hanging out in my kitchen minding my business and without warning the C.S. framed illustration that I had received from good friends this last Christmas, affixed to the wall by that 3M sticky device and hanger, came off the wall and the portrait crashed into my kitchen table. I was pleased that the glass didn't shatter. I think my box of cigars softened the blow. It wasn't one of those cheap Chinese knock-off picture hangers. It was the real 3-M deal. The portrait, glass, and frame, aren't very heavy, measuring both less that one foot in distance in regards to the X and Y axis. But, crash it did. I surmise that it was because the kitchen wall is painted with semi-gloss paint which is slicker as it has a compound in it that resists water and allows it to be scrubbed which is of importance with the kitchen water vapors and messes emanating from my latest culinary masterpiece.  I was wary of putting the C.S. Lewis illustration back up in the kitch