[Gimp-user] creative ideas for blending a cropped + rotated image?

[Anthony Ettinger]

I have a photograph of a client that I would like to rotate so the
angle is not crooked, but I end up with a "V" shape after
rotation...does anyone have any creative ideas for blending something
in to get a full rectangle?

This is the image in question...I can't crop it down to a square
because I would loose the book he's holding, and that's the point of
the web site:

http://holocaustsurvivor.info/img/press-lg-weekly_redux.png

Looking for ideas, thanks.

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Anthony Ettinger
408-656-2473
http://anthony.ettinger.name