Yours for Eternity: A Love Story on Death Row

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Yours for Eternity: A Love Story on Death Row

From one of the greatest legal injustices of our time sprang one of the most unlikelyâ€”and unforgettableâ€”love stories. Damien Echols was just eighteen years old when he was condemned to death for a crime he didnâ€™t commit. His caseâ€”that of the infamous â€œWest Memphis Threeâ€â€”gained notoriety after a documentary, Paradise Lost, exposed the biased nature of the trial and Echols as the precocious, charmingâ€”and tragicâ€”figure at its center. Lorri Davis was a landscape architect living in New York City when she surreptitiously wandered into a showing of the film, and she left forever changed. She, too, was from the South, accustomed to being the outsider in a small town. She saw much of herself in Echols, understood how he could easily have been swept up in a witch hunt, and she couldnâ€™t get him out of her head. So she wrote him a letterâ€”and when it arrived in Echolsâ€™s penitentiary cell in April 1996, hers were some of the first kind words of support he heard.

Over the course of a remarkable sixteen-year correspondence, Echols and Davis grew to know each other, fall in love, and marryâ€”all without ever being able to touch each other freely or be alone together. In Yours for Eternity, their extraordinary letters provide a singular portrait of their marriage, from the first, heady days of discovery to the final, painful months before Echolsâ€™s release. Through postscripts and footnotes, Echols and Davis describe how they overcame the enormous challenges and heartbreaks throughout the yearsâ€”personal setbacks, legal complications, and much more. Yours for Eternity reveals a relationship unfolding in the most exceptional of circumstances. Powerful and incredibly intimate, it is a modern-day love story for the ages.
Country USA
Manufacturer Blue Rider Press
Binding Hardcover
ReleaseDate 2014-06-17
UnitCount 1
UPCs 884478842849
EANs 9780399166198

Country	USA
Manufacturer	Blue Rider Press
Binding	Hardcover
ReleaseDate	2014-06-17
UnitCount	1
UPCs	884478842849
EANs	9780399166198

Yours for Eternity: A Love Story on Death Row

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