![]() ![]() It always is funny that way, the ones that naturally should offer do not, and those who have no reason to offer it, do, you never know you never do know where your good-fortune is to come from.” Stein goes on to reflect, “Life is funny that way. ![]() “And so I thanked Paul Genin and paid him back and he said if you ever need me just tell me, and that was that.” ![]() Stein and Toklas lived on Genin’s kindness for six months, after which Stein sold a Cézanne (“quite quietly to some one who came to see me”) and no longer needed money. Toklas depended no longer arrived-and he offered her a matching monthly stipend. She did-the funds from America on which she and Alice B. In “Wars I Have Seen” (1945), her memoir of the Second World War, Gertrude Stein writes of the remarkable kindness of a young Frenchman named Paul Genin, the owner of a silk factory in Lyons and a country neighbor, who came to her after America entered the war and asked if she needed money. ![]()
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