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Dear Gertrude Stein
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19 D E a R G E R t R U D E s t E I N I’ve been reading alice’s Autobiography and want to say that I too have hiccoughed and so could not take my dinner nor say my prayer, though I think it more likely that I hiccup because it shakes me. I don’t know when I will shake or when it will end, and so I am not bored. Gertrude, I have learned the cure for hiccups, but I will not tell you the remedy because it is sad to control them. It involves water and breathing and holding the nose, but it does not involve swimming. It may be the housekeeper who startles you in your Paris apartment, but here it’s the lover who frightened the hiccups from me. That was before I knew the cure, and that was better than using the water. I am not bored with the lover I cannot control, the lover who surprises the spasms from me. ...