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"Hal was the guy no one would look at twice. I looked once and knew he was going to be mine.

"Joanne has been a devout Catholic her entire life, but she didn't marry a Catholic man. She married a Jewish saint.

Hal was a lonely, badly dressed, underemployed genius-in-his-late-twenties when she met him. His goal in life was to be a family man, but he could not get a date.

The last time he had a girlfriend was in third grade. Joanne made it possible for him to fulfill his dreams.

In turn, Hal enabled Joanne to find sanity. Joanne's bipolar symptoms, which run in her family, subsided when, at Hal's insistence, she started taking medication.

Joanne was able to stop the cycle of bad parenting that had plagued her relatives for generations. Hal and Joanne lovingly raised their four children, two by birth and two by adoption.

At age sixty-six, Hal died of pancreatic cancer. And yet, even after his death, he continues to fill Joanne's life with unconditional love.

By reading this memoir you will discover that the kind of marriage you thought only existed in novels is, in fact, attainable. Bio: Joanne Groshardt, after many career attempts, combined writing skills with a computer background and was a technical writer for over twenty-five years.

Her current career is writing books (“Holly Blossums” available on Amazon) and writing screenplays (checkout IMDB. com).

Contact her at bigheart353@yahoo. com.

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