Mail won't retrieve Gmail messages on my iPad

I have no problems with any other email accounts in Mail on my iPad, but Gmail just won't retrieve emails.  I have done everything that people recommend.  Deleting the account and re-adding using Gmails instructions.  I've made sure IMAP is enabled in Gmail.  I have set a device specific password.  I have disabled captcha in Gmail.  I have also tried: turning off the account and turning it back on (in system), turning of Mail and turning it back on, turning off the iPad and turning it back on.  Everything.  I have deleted and re-added the account 3 times now.  Each time it has verfiied the device specific password, but any time it checks my gmail account, it just says "checking for mail..." and then retrieves nothing.  Help!

No, it shows absolutely nothing in the "Inbox" area, even when I had my husband send a brand spankin' new message, that I hadn't clicked on or checked in the browser of the iMac Mail client.  I think it's pretty weird, too, but I haven't found anything that will help, other than just checking in the "All Messages" area of the account.

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