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"I don't know anyone to
send condolences to-except ourselves-she was
a wonderful woman...." Langston Hughes...Nancy
walking into a desert
in Aragon
photographing
a dead daughter,
the mother providing
salty ham...Corbière red
wine...Beautiful poetry:
surprise even shock,
spareness, passion.
Her mother was from
Virginia. She sent her
daughter an emerald
bracelet. Nancy threw
it against a wall;
later attempting to sell....
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Lady Astor to Lady Emerald, "Well, Maude, what is it with Nancy now? Is it dope? Or gin? Or niggers?" Maude took the name of the gem she loved best. She gave her daughter paste. "Honey, what love we did have"...published Henry-Music for her lover Henry Crowder. Cover photo by Man Ray of Henry flanked by ivory bracelets....her real father George Moore, in his seventies, pleaded to see her naked...clothes falling away in a heap. Later he wrote of her back-beautiful like that of a weasel.
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