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In 1889, the two moved into a four-room apartment on [[42nd Street (Manhattan)|42nd Street]] with Berkman's lover [[Emma Goldman]], and her friend Helene Minkin<ref name=Sasha32>Avrich (2012), pp. 32–34</ref> (who would later marry German-American anarchist [[Johann Most]]<ref>{{cite book|last=Minkin|first=Helene|editor=Tom Goyens|title=Storm in My Heart: Memories from the Widow of Johann Most|date=January 21, 2015|publisher=[[AK Press]]|isbn=9781849351973|authormask=|trans-title=|format=|orig-year=1932|translator-first=Alisa|translator-last=Braun}}</ref>). They formed a [[commune]] inspired by [[Nikolai Chernyshevsky]]'s novel ''[[What Is to Be Done? (novel)|What Is to Be Done?]]'', trying to actualize their shared ideals of [[women's equality]] and cooperative living. While the other three worked making clothing in factories or at home, Stein continued trying to become a professional artist, occasionally selling pictures, but mostly funded by the other roommates, or by money sent by his parents in Russia. When he did sell one of his paintings, Stein would sometimes spend the money on "beautiful" luxuries, such as flowers, or fashionable clothes, which made Berkman fume. On one occasion when Stein overspent on a meal, Berkman actually struck him, calling this theft from the revolution.<ref name=Sasha32/>
Emma Goldman began to resent Berkman's strictness, and to be attracted to Stein's more relaxed and artistic character. One day, after posing nude for him, she and Stein
For the next years, the group moved their commune several times, while the members worked at different jobs. In late 1890, the three lived in [[New Haven, Connecticut]], with Helene and her sister Anna Minkin, while Berkman worked as a printer's apprentice, the women made dresses, while Stein continued drawing, but also tried making shirts, and his father's trade as a night clerk in a drug store, before all returned to New York. In 1891, Stein moved to [[Springfield, Massachusetts]], where he drew crayon portraits from photos in a photographer's shop. This was relatively successful, so he invited Goldman to take orders, and in 1892, moved to [[Worcester, Massachusetts]], to open the "French Art Studio", where Berkman also joined them to frame. The three continued to live together, passing Berkman and Goldman as a married couple and Stein as Goldman's brother. As their art studio gradually failed, they opened a [[luncheonette]] based around Goldman's cooking, which was more successful.<ref name=Sasha41>Avrich (2012), pp. 41–50</ref>
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