Vincent Van Gogh, the women of his life

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Women
Women made you suffer a good deal... You are 20 when you fall in love with Eugénie. You are turned down. She loves another...
After sinking in a deep depression, you fall madly in love with your cousin Kee, a young widow... She flees him... “No, no, no way!”...
In La Haye, you live with Sien, a pregnant prostitute. You are happy to live with a woman, to have a home And to bring up the newborn child...
Your family panics.You have to leave Sien... Later, in Nuenen, Margot loves you and wants to marry you...
Her sisters oppose to it. She makes a suicide attempt. You are rejected by your family. You have to leave once more...
In Paris, you have a short-lived affair with Augustina Segatori who runs the cabaret “le Tambourin”.
In Arles, you see Gaby, a prostitute in a brothel, She is the one to whom you offer the end of your cut ear...
In Auvers, you fall for Doctor Gachet’s daughter... The last failure...