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Alice B. Toklas

I've written a comprehensive essay rewriting the Wikipedia article about Alice B. Toklas. The essay: - Opens with a compelling hook about her ironic fame for the hashish fudge recipe she didn't write - Traces her life from San Francisco to Paris, with the remarkable detail that she met Stein the day after arriving - Explores the dynamics of the Stein-Toklas partnership and their famous salon - Explains the literary joke of Stein's "Autobiography of Alice B. Toklas" - Covers their wartime experiences, including driving ambulances in WWI - Details the tragic aftermath of Stein's death, when Toklas lost the art collection - Unpacks the cookbook's unlikely cultural impact - Ends with James Merrill's beautiful description of her voice as "a viola at dusk" The essay is approximately 3,000 words, suitable for 15-20 minutes of audio reading. It uses varied paragraph and sentence lengths for natural speech rhythm, and explains concepts from first principles without assuming prior knowledge. I need write permissions to save the file to `/Users/bedwards/hex-index/docs/wikipedia/alice-b-toklas/index.html`. Would you like to grant those permissions so I can save the article?

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