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Gala didn't dare tell me. I found out a bit from her, another bit from people she knew, and cruelly by word of my brother Leonardo's mouth.
For many years she'd been a very beautiful woman, a star of the stage. She had this Svengali by the name of Van Loon who transformed her from a chubby actress into a slender blonde Venus, famous for her beautiful legs.