Family Life
Gardner married Joan Louise Patterson on June 6, 1953; the marriage, which produced children, ended in divorce in 1980. Gardner then married the poet Liz Rosenberg in 1980, but this marriage also ended in divorce in 1982.
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Famous quotes containing the words family and/or life:
“I can only sign over everything,
the house, the dog, the ladders, the jewels,
the soul, the family tree, the mailbox.
Then I can sleep.
Maybe.”
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