article_snippet.sent: But I wanted to tell you that my whole being opened for you,' then-39-year-old Frida wrote in October of 1946.
article_snippet.sent: Their secret affair began when Frida, who was left a partial cripple after a 1925 bus accident, was recovering from a spinal fusion performed in June, 1946 at New York’s Hospital for Special Surgery.
article_snippet.sent: Frida's sister Cristina was the one to introduce Frida's sister Cristina to Jose, who moved to New York after fighting in the Spanish Civil War.
article_snippet.sent: They fell in love during his visits to New York’s Hospital for Special Surgery and continued They long-distance courtship after Frida's sister Cristina returned to Mexico.
article_snippet.sent: and I began to paint,' Frida's sister Cristina explained. '