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Gertrude Stein
Gertrude Stein
Gertrude Stein was born in Allegheny, Pennsylvania, on February 3, 1874, to...
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Two Love Notes to Alice B. Toklas

 
by Gertrude Stein

Dear dainty delicious darling, dear
sweet selected [enemifier?] of my soul  
dear beloved baby dear everything
to me when this you see you will
have slept long and will be warm
and completely [loudly?] loved by
me dear wifey, [your?] baby
—yb


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