Somehow or rather the newspaper had

Somehow or rather the newspaper had gotten hold of the fact that he had been in close contact with each of them in their last years and had sensationalized the links he had with them, dubbing him the gaudiest name he had ever heard of: ‘the Painter of Bones’, and really, Chanyeol thinks its rather insulting of them to call the dignified elderly he had painted ‘bones’. They were some of the nicest people he had ever met.