Show KATHLEEN NORRIS grand passion FIRST KNOWLEDGE of amy what real love is came only atter after I 1 had been married nine years writes jessica cady from wilmington 1 I was going along quite luite contentedly not realizing that I 1 was missing the most wonderful thing in life I 1 had married a at 17 feeling all a girls foolish pride at i being the first of my class to marry carleton my husband was then 27 and seemed a very important person to me that we were badly matched certainly occurred to us both in the next few years we were not congenial we had no common interests in conversation but we were the parents of two lovely girls and there seemed no purpose in any course but the usual quiet married life then while carleton was away in the south seas I 1 met a man 1 I will call fred we had worked together in an assembly plant tor for almost a year before quite suddenly the earth shook beneath us and we discovered our love fred a also 7 was wa the father of two children older than mine between himself and his wife at this time there was hardly more than civility ecstasy our love was all the ecstasy the rapture and delight of all the books and movies all the great re at swept songs and pictures we were swept pt off our feet and for almost a year r while giving the world no evidence ot of our devotion we lived in a paradise of our own when carleton came home I 1 told him quite simply of the tremendous change that had come into my feelings and asked for a divorce that was one year ago and it has been the most terrible year of my life my love for fred Is like a tearing tire fire inside me I 1 cannot go back and wipe it out as if it had never been but several circumstances have made divorce seem less than a solution |