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Street-smart, wickedly funny, piercingly perceptive, and eloquent enough to get a Pulitzer Reward, Mike Royko continues to have legions of committed supporters who still question "what Royko could have said" about some outrageous piece of news. One thing he seldom wrote or discussed, though, was his private life, especially enough time he distributed to his first wife, Carol. She was the love of his life, and her premature death at age 44 shook him to his heart. Mike's unforgettable public tribute to Carol was a heart-wrenching column written on what could have been her 45th birthday, "A November Farewell". his most well-known and requested part, it was the finish of your untold report. Royko in Love offers that story's moving and absolutely beguiling beginning in letters that "Mick" Royko, a young airman, had written to his youth sweetheart, Carol Duckman. He previously been in love with her given that they were kids on Chicago's northwest part, but she was a beauty and he was, well, anything but. Before departing for Korea, he was crushed to hear she was getting married, but after returning to Blaine Air Make Foundation in Washington, he discovered she was obtaining a divorce. Mick soon commenced to woo Carol in a blast of letters that are as fervent as they are funny. Accumulated here for the very first time, Royko's letters to Carol are an assortment of sugary seduction, sarcastic observations on armed service life, a Chicago kid's wry view of rural folk, the pain of self-doubt, and the fear of losing what is finally so close, but virtually up to now. His only weapons against Carol's many suitors were his pen, his ardor, and his brilliance. And they won her heart.
