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Scope and Contents I'm one of those people who has known about Frida Kahlo since the time I played hopscotch. The memory of the painting 'Las Dos Fridas' (The Two Fridas) is seared into my mind. Looking at the painting in Mexico City as a child in awe and with a little bit of horror as well. Frida was born in 1907 in the Mexico City neighborhood of Coyoacán. When she was just 21 years old she wooed the famous, and then infamous, Mexican muralist Diego Rivera. They lived in a post'revolutionary Mexico,...