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Black serif text on a white background aka a page from the cited book that reads: "[Hans Christian] Andersen himself wrote to Edvard [Collin] in 1833 that it was his own 'softness and half womanliness' that made him cling to Edvard, and in the draft of an 1835 letter to Edvard that was not sent, he wrote that his love for him was not overwrought sentimentality but 'a pure, noble feeling'. Edvard's wedding in August 1836 made Andersen review their relationship. The fairy tale The Little Mermaid (1837) is an existential and poetic reflection and clarification of his love for Edvard—the impossible and fatal love of a little mermaid for a prince who never really sees her, except for her art, her dancing on the small feet that hurt as if she were treading on knives. Andersen wrote no more love letters to Edvard."
An old gray-and-white spotted cat sitting on her paws and staring intently through a screen door at the outside world.
A small white man with a large St. Bernard/Bernese Mountain mix dog laying across his lap. The dog has rich black fur on her face; cocoa fur on her body; and a white snout, feet, and patch of fur on her chest. Her pink tongue is sticking out. The man is smiling down at the down and running his hands through her fur.
The first three paragraphs of the newspaper article “Litet om ‘Lasse-Major’” published in the Svenska Amerikanska Posten (Minnesota) on January 29, 1901 (page 7). The full article mentions 6 people: Swedish memoirist Lasse-Maja (1785–1845); American politician Murray Hall (1841–1901); Pope Joan/Pope John VII, an alleged 9th century pope from Mainz (which is now in Germany); Christina of the House of Vasa, Queen of Sweden until she converted to Catholicism (1626–1689); Hungarian writer Sándor Vay (1859–1918); and a Swedish-American immigrant harassed by Minnesotan police throughout the 1890s known as Swede Pete/Cowboy Pete/Annie Hedstrom/Annie Johnson/Charles Parker. Note the Swedish-Americanisms, including the archaic “qvinna” rather than modern kvinna. Transcript: Litet om "Lasse-Major." ¶Hvem minnes icke ännu från sin barndom den sorglustiga historien, föröfrigt sann till punkt och pricka, om den beryktade stortjufven Lasse-Maja, hvilken på sin tid spelade stadsfiskaler och poliskonstaplar, länsmän och fjerdingsmän större spratt än efter honom någon annan illgerningsman. ¶Den illfundige bofven, hvilkens namn var Lars Molin, uppträdde under hela sin långa, brottsliga bana som fruntimmer, och var det antagligen derför, som han lyckades så väl. ¶Som herrskapet ser af en notis i nyhetsafdelningen, afled nyligen i New York en figur som under de senaste 30 åren gått och gällt för karl, under namnet Murray Hall, men efter döden visade sig vara en till alla delar fullt utbildad qvinna.