The Sunday Telegraph London, June 15th, 2003
Marijane Meaker opens a box and produces a yellowing love letter from the author Patricia Highsmith: "Dear Marijane, my darling Marijane," it begins. "I do love you and want you and want to spend my life with you - more than anything in the world, and by this I do mean anything."
Meaker and Highsmith fell in love in the late 1950s. Their relationship, at times tempestuous, was the most significant either of them ever had: "I've certainly never been so besotted with anyone since Pat," says Meaker. "I was crazy about her . . . and she told me that she was happier [with me ] than she'd ever been...
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