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This moving memoir documents a marriage of more than forty years between two gifted people, a long term marriage that was: full of wonderful things, terrible things, joyous things, grievous things, but ours.

In the final memoir of her Crosswicks Journals, the author of A Wrinkle in Time paints an intimate portrait of her forty-year marriage.

A long-term marriage has to move beyond chemistry to compatibility, to friendship, to companionship.

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Madeleine L'Engle reveals what life was like during her forty-year marriage to actor Hugh Franklin. She details their lean years when she was a fledgling writer and he a struggling actor, and their struggle with Hugh's cancer and his subsequent death.

Madeleine L'Engle reveals what life was like during her forty-year marriage to actor Hugh Franklin. She details their lean years when she was a fledgling writer and he a struggling actor, and their struggle with Hugh's cancer and his subsequent death.