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Yours for Eternity: A Love Story on Death Row

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Yours for Eternity: A Love Story on Death Row is a moving memoir that traces the profound relationship between Damien Echols and Lorri Davis. Chronicling their journey through letters and shared experiences, the book explores how their love blossomed despite Echols's imprisonment on death row. It delves into themes of resilience, hope, and the transformative power of love in the face of adversity.
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This book may appeal to you if you enjoy poignant true stories that explore the triumph of love against unimaginable odds. It narrates the moving journey of an unlikely romance that blossoms amidst adversity, offering hope and inspiration through personal letters written between two people separated by daunting circumstances. Ideal for readers interested in deep emotional connections and the transformative power of love.

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Yours for Eternity: A Love Story on Death Row

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From one of the greatest legal injustices of our time sprang one of the most unlikely—and unforgettable—love stories. For anyone who followed the case of the "West Memphis Three", or read Damien Echols's memoir, Life After Death, there is one lingering question: Who was the woman—courageous, affected, or just plain crazy enough—to fall in love and marry him while he was on death row?

Lorri Davis was a landscape architect living in New York City when she saw Paradise Lost, a documentary about the three young men imprisoned in Arkansas for an unspeakable crime they didn't commit. When her first letter arrived in Echols's cell in 1996, hers were some of the first kind words of support he had heard. Over the course of a remarkable sixteen-year correspondence, Echols and Davis grew to know each other, fall in love, and marry—all without ever being able to touch each other freely or be alone together.

In Yours for Eternity, they describe how they overcame the enormous challenges and heartbreaks throughout the years—personal setbacks, legal complications, and much more. Astoundingly, thousands of their personal letters have survived, to create a singular portrait of their marriage told in alternating voices by Echols and Davis both. Yours for Eternity reveals a relationship unfolding in the most exceptional of circumstances. Powerful, unique, and incredibly intimate, it is a modern-day love story for the ages.

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Yours for Eternity: A Love Story on Death Row is praised for its emotional depth, highlighting the injustice faced by Damien Echols during his wrongful imprisonment. The memoir is lauded for its poetic and mystic writing style, combining themes of romance and resilience, which evoke both tears and laughter. The book is celebrated as a poignant exploration of love and the human spirit under extreme adversity.

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ISBN: 9781922182302

Publisher: Text Publishing

Format: Paperback / softback

Date Published: 25 June 2014

Country: Australia

Imprint: The Text Publishing Company

Audience: General / adult

DIMENSIONS

Spine width: 33.0mm

Width: 153.0mm

Height: 235.0mm

Weight: 586g

Pages: 320

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