“Someone asked me about the long marriage to Joe [Gousha, Powell’s recently deceased husband]—42 years—and I reflected that he was the only person in the world I found it always a kick to run into on the street.
“As for his death, this is a curious thing to say but after 42 years of life together—much of it precarious and crushing—we have been through worse disasters together, and I’m sure Joe would feel the same way about me.”
Dawn Powell, journal entry, March 8, 1962 (courtesy of Mrs. T)