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or took his own life.

During her brief marriage to Sergei, Isadora returned to the United States for a tour one that ended quickly when suspicious Americans dubbed her and Sergei communist supporters. An angry Isadora bared her breasts during a concert in Boston, where she was booed because of these suspicions, exclaiming, "This is red and so am I!" The next day she, disillusioned and hurt, left her mother country and vowed to never return; a promise that she kept.

Later in life, Isadora gave up dancing giving her own age and weight gain as her reasoning and turned even more heavily to the bottle. She was soon known more for her extravagant liaisons and drinking binges than for the great, inspirational dancer and mysterious, magical young woman she had once been.

Broken in spirit and in bank Isadora spent her final years living in hotel rooms in Paris, visited and cared for by her closest friends, Gordon Craig and Mary Desti, and the young man working with her on her autobiography, My Life it was unfinished at the time of her death and published posthumously. Isadora was against writing an autobiography, but desperately needed the money.

Isadora's vibrant, wild life met a similar end. Known for wearing long, draping clothes and scarves, it was just such a feature of dress that ended the indomitable dancer's life. On the 14th of September, in 1927, Isadora was riding in a convertible Amilcar when the body-length, scarf hand-painted by artist Roman Chatlov she was wearing became wrapped around the rear wheel of the vehicle. Bodily ripped from the car and dragged behind it, Isadora's fading star had completely gone out by time the driver stopped.

Isadora Duncan lived a life without limits in fact, her favorite quote was "Sans limites" and it can be said that, without a doubt, she got much more out of it than just "ten percent".

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