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  "path": "/2026/04/01/frida-kahlo-alejandro-gomez-arias-love-letters/",
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  "textContent": "One of the 35 girls among the 2,000 students at Mexico’s National Preparatory School, Frida Kahlo (July 6, 1907–July 13, 1954) was fifteen when she met Alejandro Gómez Arias. Both were passionate and erudite, both were members of the anarchist student group known as Los Cachuchas for the pointed cloth caps they wore in defiance of the era’s restrictive dress code, both became each other’s first love. Alejandro was on the bus with Frida that fateful late-summer day shortly after her eighteenth birthday when a tram collision killed several other passengers and left her so severely injured — her pelvis… read article",
  "title": "The Courage of Vulnerability: Teenage Frida Kahlo’s Moving Letters to Her First Love"
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