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The Danish Girl Chapter 26

By David Ebershoff

Chapter 26

Greta is so over Lili. She doesn't even want to paint her anymore—every time she tries, she can't get her right.
So she hires models, but her paintings of them are terrible, too. Not Museum of Bad Art bad, but still bad.
Hans tells Greta that the market for art is floundering and they should move to New York City, perhaps even visiting California, where Greta is from.
She resists, as usual, because she doesn't want to leave Lili.
However, one night she follows Lili, who has been working at a perfume counter.
After work, Lili walks through the streets with a purpose.
Although she has to stop and take a pain pill, it's not like she's helpless, and she's clearly going to meet someone.
Greta realizes that Lili is more independent than she thought. Maybe she will go to New York with Hans after all…

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