Gertrude Stein's Tender Buttons [in toots] : Objects :

NOTHING ELEGANT.

A charm a single charm is doubtful. If the red is rose and there is a gate surrounding it, if inside is let in and there places change then certainly something is upright. It is earnest.

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Photo attached: Alice B. Toklas and Gertrude Stein seated at home on the Rue de Fleurus, Paris, by Man Ray in 1922