Like Two Saplings: A Memoir

Our complete immersion in one another our yin to one anothers yang and our ultimate growing together like two saplings into one great tall tree. It was our greatest strength this intertwining.In the early 1960s two recently-graduated architects from very different cultures and continents traveled to Greece to continue their educations as urban planners. The ancient City of Athens had long served as a bridge between the East and West. Attraction between Margery and Suhail grew slowly; but irresistibly. And at the end of their three years of study and work they added two graduate degrees a marriage and an all-encompassing partnership that would grow evolve and deeper over fifty years.Suddenly at the height of their highly-regarded careers and a satisfying and rewarding lifestyle their happy lives were upended. Suhails chronic leukemia had become acute. This memoir recounts the following year of dread and hope; the feverish trips between hospital and home; and the trip to Dallas for the treatment that could kill off the lethal strain of leukemia threatening Suhails life. Tender and smart Like Two Saplings is a memoir of captivating romance a hectic year of uncertainty ping-ponging between hope and fear - interspersed with recollections of long-ago beginnings exotic travels and vacations landmark accomplishment and events and the closeness of colleagues family and friends.This is an unflinching look at love facing death. Filled with e-mails to family and friends chronicling her husbands treatments prognoses and plans and testimonials from colleagues family and friends. Margery captures the intimate details of the way in which Suhail faced death with the same courage resoluteness and grace with which he lived his life.