And so I am an American and I have lived half my life in paris, not the half that made me but the half in which I made what I made.                     -Gertrude Stein,      "An American and France" L i f t i n g    B e l l y T e n d e r   B u t t o n s : O b j e c t s ,   F o o d ,   R o o m s P a r i s   F r a n c e T h e    A u t o b i o g r a p h y o f    A l i c e   B .   T o k l a s T h r e e   L i v e s G e r t r u d e   S t e i n ' s   A m e r i c a A   B o o k   C o n c l u d i n g   W i t h A s  a   W i f e   H a s   a   C o w S e l e c t e d   W r i t i n g s   o f G e r t r u d e   S t e i n ‹– A U T H O R S     M O R E  –›

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