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For those of you who know a little about my love life (and even for those of you who don't), a significant relationship I've been in for the past 11 months has kind of fallen apart. It was very loosely held together to begin with, but that's beside the point. I'm going through the whole range of emotions and haven't quite settled on one yet. I started crying while washing my hands the other day because I started staring at my fingers. Fingers, people!
But...
I will survive. I know this much. It's just not going to be very pleasant living for a while.


In other news, I finished my encyclopedic entry assignment starring Ms. Frida Kahlo, herself! So, here it is ♥

Matilde Travert, 1917-1940
*Known through a brief, alleged affair with Mexican surrealist painter, Frida Kahlo during Kahlo's 1940 visit to Paris, France. Matilde appears to have been the housekeeper/cook during Kahlo's visit and at some point developed a more intimate relationship (although the exact details of this relationship are unknown). A photograph was taken of Matilde during Kahlo's stay, in which one can see Matilde wearing a Mexican folk-art inspired charm bracelet (the charms appear to be various bones and hearts). Kahlo is also rumored to have been engaging in an affair with the well-known songstress Josephine Baker, which could have been the cause for a violent and heated encounter which led to Matilde's removal from the household. In late March, just weeks before Kahlo returned to Mexico, she reported an act of vandalism: a painting depicting a no longer identifiable woman had been shredded and defaced. The only notable feature of the painting was a charm bracelet worn on the right hand of the faceless woman: it was adorned with bones and winged-hearts. Shortly after Kahlo returned to Mexico in mid-April, Matilde was featured in a short obituary in a local Parisian newspaper. Matilde Travert had committed suicide.