Romance is not dead....

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Posthumous,and Late,but still,in the way that matters,not Dead... I read a newspaper article today (Daily Mail,UK) saying Raymond Chandler,creator of Humphrey Bogart's famous "Philip Marlowe" Detective Character,Died 5 Years after his wife,the love of his Life,who'd died in 1954.He'd written much about their life and Love after her passing.It might seem strange that somehow when He then passed in 1959 that they were not buried together,and it wasn't until this Valentine's Day that a Chandler fan,having realised in 2009,50 years on,that this was what Chandler had wanted but it somehow got overlooked in the bustle around his own funeral,and decided to help made it happen.The Fan,named as Loren Latker,went through the legal hurdles (In a sort of Hollywood tie-in,The Lawyer He used Is a Daughter of John Wayne!)for the reburial of Chandler's Wife,Cissy.Her Ashes were transported in a cortege of vintage 1920's vehicles,accompanied by a Dixieland Jazz band,where her Ashes were then reinterred by Her Husband's side. Would You be a Chandler reader or Bogart Fan? Were You aware of this story? How romantic do you think it was for this to eventually happen on Valentine's Day?