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Over forty years, Marsh and her partner built a life defined by love, devotion, and independence. He supported her when she bought her home in California wine country, when she grieved the deaths of her parents, when she built her career as a psychotherapist, and even when she overcame a lifelong fear of dogs to adopt a rescued greyhound. They never married or shared a home-by choice. They were lovers and confidants, deeply committed to one another. More than a romance, theirs was a relationship based on honesty and shared emotion. Yet, they only met on Tuesdays and Fridays. And then, one day, he vanished. When Marsh finally tracked him down, she discovered the unimaginable: he had suffered a catastrophic stroke. His memory was gone. He could no longer speak. And he was living with a woman who knew him by a different name. What was the truth? With him unreachable behind the devastation of his illness, and with the danger that exposing their relationship could cause irreparable harm, Marsh was left to confront a hall of mirrors-plagued by questions, silences, and uncertainty. In the end, she discovered a universal reality: we all live with some unknowable mystery. The memoir ends with a question: Do we spend our lives searching in vain for an answer, or do we find a version of the truth we can live with, and live with it?

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In addition to her two novels, Marsh's published stories and essays are memoir, in the form of creative nonfiction (CNF). She won first prize for I took first prize for CNF from New Millennium Writings in 2018 for her story, ""False Memory,"" and was a winner in the June/July 2025 issue of Tulip Tree's ""Wild Women"" contest for her CNF story, ""Dinosaur Rock."" Marsh is currently a reader for Hippocampus Magazine. When Boomer Café was publishing online, she was a frequent guest columnist. She's a psychotherapist in private practice and lives in the ""wine country"" in Sonoma County, CA.

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