Author Ben Bryant & Elizabeth Hepburn in the “Wall Street Journal”
- Posted on 20th April 2015
- in divorce & remarriage, Love Story
- by Ben
On Monday, 20 April 2015,
Wall Street Journal
columnist Elizabeth Bernstein’s piece about people who have experienced “love at first sight” will be published on line. It will be in the print edition the next day. The story of “Ben and Elizabeth’s romance” is featured in this column.
Ms Bernstein learned of our story and contacted us. We had a lot of emails back and forth for several days the result of which will be this column.
As you who read this blog well know, my life is an open book; three of them to be more accurate. But Elizabeth, even though she has a website, is a very private person and was a bit unsure as to whether or not this kind of exposure was a good idea.
April 18, 2015
However when we talked it over it became clear that nothing was going to be published that I hadn’t already written about in the memoirs and her support for that project was exemplified by her willingness to write the foreword for my third volume, Waiting for Elizabeth.
Here’s a quote from what she wrote:
I was shocked when Ben asked me to write this foreword. Truth be told, I didn’t even want him to write the book. Who wants to resurrect life’s painful chapters even if they ultimately deliver the players to peaceful conclusions? Not me! But the determination (bordering on bull-headedness) and dedication of this man to tell his story, was non-negotiable. So here we are.
Much to my dismay at times, he read every chapter of this book to me. And though it was often “not a day at the beach”, it wasn’t as difficult as I’d anticipated. Toward the end of the reading, I was struck by an unlikely image. It was of the phenomenal documentary Winged Migration, where we got to witness birds of every conceivable variety, leaving their nests and flying thousands of miles over oceans and mountains and continents – flying it seemed forever – to their “vacation homes”, where they hung out and mated and re-grouped. Then with a seasonal shift, there they were flying back from whence they’d come. It was extraordinary, thrilling, inspiring, and to me, exhausting. I couldn’t imagine flapping my wings for such a long time. What a tough gig for these beautiful creatures.
And somehow, as I listened to Ben’s story, I had a similar reaction. It wasn’t exhaustion, it was amazement at the resiliency he’d brought to his personal journey. …
So have a look at the piece and let us know what you think.
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