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"If one stands in so intimate a relationship with a man as I do with Douglass, one comes to know facets of the whole world, of men + women, which would otherwise remain closed, especially if it is a man whom the entire world has seen + whom so many women have loved."

A 20 year friendship between Frederick Douglass & German born feminist, freethinker, + abolitionist Ottilie Assing was to end in tragedy. After learning that Douglass had married Helen Pitts, Assing killed herself by swallowing cyanide in a public park in Paris. As per her will all her letters with Douglass were burned. She bequeathed him ongoing income from a trust fund + his choice of books from her library.

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“Love came to me, + I was not afraid to marry the man I loved because of his color”

Frederick Douglass & Helen Pitts married 2 years after the death of his 1st wife Anna. He was 66 + she, 46. They married amid a storm of controversy. Both families objected to the marriage. Douglass’ children felt his marriage was a repudiation of their African American mother. Pitts' family, alrhough friends to Douglass + abolitionists, stopped speaking to her. The couple remained married for 11 years, until his death in 1895.

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Helena is seated in the photo with her sister standing

David Cronenberg dissects the heart, humor and “hole horror” of his filmography from Shivers to The Shrouds https://letterboxd.com/journal/david-cronenberg-the-shrouds-interview

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Rudolph Nureyev was an admirer of Erik Bruhn, the celebrated Danish dancer whose performances he had seen on tape when the Dane had performed in Russia with the American Ballet Theatre. After Nureyev defected to the West in 1961 the two met, and although stylistically the two dancers were very different, offstage they became a couple and remained together for 25 years, until Bruhn's death in 1986. Nureyev considered Bruhn the great love of his life.

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