Letter from Frida Kahlo to Alejandro Gómez Arias, June 30, 1946 Page 2 of 4

the howling died down and with the help of the little pills I’ve more or less survived. I have two whopping scars on my back in this shape. [Drawing] From there they proceeded to yanking out a scrap of my pelvis to graft it onto my column, which is where the scar is least hair-raising and straightest. Five vertebras were damaged and now they’re going to remain like a repeating rifle.