At a previous dinner, when for the first time I really told him some of the details of my faltering marriage, and how I was too afraid to take any definitive steps for fear of traumatizing my young daughter, Edward was silent. A few days later, I received a letter that I still take out to read when I am feeling besieged. He noted, in part, “You are a fine and talented woman, whose potential is yet to be realized given the love and support and luck we all need. Where you lost the will to fight for what is yours, where you gave away control of your life, is the mystery you are now unraveling.
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