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After a very long walk on a very hot afternoon, I found myself turning a cobblestone corner in the hilltop town of Ménerbes and seeing to my surprise the locked gate to the garden of Dora Maar’s house, the troubled and very unhappy muse of Pablo Picasso, who spent the last fifty years of her difficult life in this consolingly beautiful place. The locked…

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