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*Two* Women to Know: The Cone Sisters

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Julia Carpenter
Oct 27, 2016
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There were two of them, they were sisters, they were large women, they were rich. — Gertrude Stein, on Claribel and Etta

(image via The Baltimore Museum of Art)
Don't you feel sometimes that for one super glorious, disgustingly gorgeous period of time in Paris everyone incredible was just friends with everyone else who was incredible? Claribel and Etta…

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