An Unfinished Marriage

Is a (non-series) sequel to

Original publication date

2002

Epigraph

Every beginning is aalways a sequel, after all, and the book of events is always open halfway through.
--Wislawa Szymborska, "Love at First sight," from View with a Grain of Sand

Dedication

for my unfinished man JA

First words

The night sky has barely dissolved to a pale blue light when I slide out of bed and tiptoe to the kitchen, rellishing the early-morning silence I have come to treasure.

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Prologue: Never did I think when I ran away from home that a memoir, A Year By the Sea, would come from that experience, nor did I expect that thousands of women would write to tell me that my experience was their experience.