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friend of Ellen's used to model for Waldo, and she and Waldo went to a well-known cafe or restaurant where Ellen waited tables. It was during wartime. The romance started there. She preferred the quiet life in Maine, but she kept a pied-Ă -terre in
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Matisse show in New York." In Paris she delivered the couple's twin boys, Michael and Mellen. They then had a daughter, Anna. Mellen Chamberlain Peirce is an active poet and playwright who lives in London. His wife is Gareth Peirce, the human rights activist attorney for
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as well as hundreds of pictures of his beloved families (he was married four times and had numerous children). With a mustache and full beard and a large cigar jammed perpetually into his mouth he looked every inch of a cartoonist's notion of an artist. Peirce himself was adamant about one thing:
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Peirce was devoted to his children and painted them many hundreds of times. In a letter written in the mid-1930s, Ernest
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