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Dalí’s being dug up for a paternity test. But is his DNA intact?

A Spanish court has granted a request to have Dalí's body exhumed from a crypt in Catalonia so a third paternity test can be conducted.
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Even if you didn’t take art history classes in school, you probably know Salvador Dalí’s work. One of the surrealist’s most famous paintings, “The Persistence of Memory,” is the one with the melting clocks.

But memory is not the only thing that persists — a woman who has claimed to be Dalí’s daughter for over a decade has not given up. To support her contention, Pilar Abel has had two previous paternity tests performed —

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