Would Carolyn and John have remained married? Of course, we will never know if they would have stayed together. Yet many of those close to the couple find it hard to imagine otherwise. “I don’t know who they would find to replace each other,” John Perry Barlow said. “That terrible experience, John’s mother dying and all that press attention after they got married, was a kind of annealing process for them both. I can’t see any circumstances so severe that they would give it all up at this stage.”
