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" Royko in love / "
Mike Royko ; edited by David Royko.
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BL
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986247
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b740617
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| Main Entry
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Royko, Mike,1932-1997.
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Royko in love /\ Mike Royko ; edited by David Royko.
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Chicago :: University of Chicago Press,, 2010.
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1 online resource (xx, 222 pages, 8 unnumbered pages of plates) :: illustrations
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0226730794
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: 1282775855
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0226730786
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9780226730783
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| Contents
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pt. 1 "Another year and another letter" -- pt. 2. "My darling, as soon as possible be with me again" -- pt. 3. "Hello my sweet wonderful wife."
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Street-smart, wickedly funny, piercingly perceptive, and eloquent enough to win a Pulitzer Prize, Mike Royko continues to have legions of devoted fans who still wonder "what Royko would have said" about some outrageous piece of news. One thing he hardly ever wrote or talked about, though, was his private life, especially the time he shared with his first wife, Carol. She was the love of his life, and her premature death at the age of forty-four shook him to his soul. Mike's unforgettable public tribute to Carol was a heart-wrenching column written on what would have been her forty-fifth birthday, "November Farewell." His most famous and requested piece, it was the end of an untold story. Royko in Love offers that story's moving and utterly beguiling beginning in letters that "Mick" Royko, then a young airman, wrote to his childhood sweetheart, Carol Duckman. He had been in love with her since they were kids on Chicago's northwest side, but she was a beauty and he was, well ...
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Royko, Carol,1934-1979
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Royko, Mike,1932-1997
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Royko, Carol,1934-1979.
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Royko, Mike,1932-1997.
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Love-letters.
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BIOGRAPHY AUTOBIOGRAPHY-- General.
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LANGUAGE ARTS DISCIPLINES-- Journalism.
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Love-letters.
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070.92
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PN4874.R744A4 2010eb
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Royko, David,1959-
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