PDF Seven Days of SHIVA: Forty-six years of puppy love

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Seven
Days
of
SHIVA
Forty-six
years
of
puppy
love
Description
An unforgettable memoir about a romance that
will make you smile,
laugh, and cry - not always in that order.Seized
with grief at the loss of his beloved and vibrant
wife, Barbara, after a thirty-year battle with
breast cancer, Marc Gellman does the only thing
he finds he can do. He starts telling stories.
This unique memoir is much more
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than a tribute to a departed love. Their story
shows how a cancer journey seamlessly entwines
through a four decades-long love story.A lifelong
raconteur and jokester, Marc spent their
forty-six- year relationship making Barbara
laugh. He'd do anything to make Barbara's
gorgeous face break into the cute, dimpled smile
he first saw once upon a time, in 1964, when a
fourteen-year-old boy from Brooklyn met a
twelve-year-old girl from The Bronx and they fell
in love.Surrounded by family and friends for
seven days of sitting Shiva, Marc recounts his
fairytale love story with Barbara, from their
teenage meeting in the 1960s Rockaway summer
scene, to being early marrieds in New York City,
to suburban parenting, and to life as an urban
couple relishing their empty nest. Once it
appears, Barbara's courageous, grueling,
determinded, hope -filled fight against a brutal
disease is unflinchingly depicted.With candor and
humor, laughter and tears, Marc shares the tales
of a life both wildly charmed and excruciatingly
challenging. Theirs is a life of parties and
singing and celebration, and a life of hard work
raising three lively children while managing two
demanding, deeply rewarding careers. It's a life
of playful adventures and hijinks, of makng the
most of every silly moment in even the most
serious of times. A life of standing up to every
challenge together, and dancing close whenever
they can.Observing their singular, remarkable
romance through quotShia Eyes,quotMarc uncovers
a depth to the love he'd never fully grasped, and
a strength in Barbara he'd never fully
understood. For all the trials that cancer
brought into their lives, he discovers a
happily-ever-after born of laughter, devotion,
faith, and above all, a teenage puppy love that
only grew with each passing year.