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Memoir of love, depression in New England raises haunting issues

In February 2000, at age 67, Guy Waterman reached the grim goal he and his wife spent more than a year preparing for: He committed suicide by freezing to death in New Hampshire’s White Mountains.
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His death, like all suicides do, raised agonizing questions. In her new memoir, ”Losing the Garden: The Story of a Marriage,” Laura Waterman looks to love for answers.

”In my life with Guy I had loved blindly, plunging wholeheartedly into this irrational, joyous, painful, perplexing territory we call love,” she writes. ”I had taken love to extremes.”


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    Last reviewed: By John M. Grohol, Psy.D. on 10 Apr 2005

 


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