Tonights the last night of the book tour (just realized they spelled Damiens name wrong in some of the event promo - Whooops) July 2 - Chicago, IL. City Lit Books - Logan Square Auditorium located at 2539 N. Kedzie Boulevard (free parking behind Popular Bank) at 7pm. Damian and Lorri will discuss their new book, Yours for Eternity, with journalist Selena Fragassi. This book is a follow-up to Life After Death, Damians story of wrongful conviction of murder as part of the Memphis Three and subsequent twenty-year imprisonment on Death Row. Tickets for this event can be purchased for $5 each (plus an additional $1.17 service fee) at brownpapertickets/event/704278 Beginning as an exchange of letters between two distant worlds and becoming a remarkable story of marriage, love, and salvation, YOURS FOR ETERNITY traces the development of Davis and Echolss relationship in alternating epistolary voices. The letters quickly moved from inquisitive formality (I hope it doesnt freak you out to have someone that you dont even know mooning over you so much, wrote Davis) to a deeper exchange of ideas and intimacy (You made me so happy today that there is no way I could express it, because I read some things in your letters that said things that I wanted to say but couldnt bring myself to say, Echols wrote.) As Davis and Echols described their worlds for each other, they broke down seemingly impossible barriers between them in order to create a world they could both inhabit. Watching movies at the same hour and sharing the same books became ways to be together, as did their moon water ritual (capturing the light of the moon in a glass of water and drinking it at an agreed-upon time). Under circumstances too restrictive for most of us to imagine, Davis and Echols found a way to learn each others magick, and to fall in love. YOURS FOR ETERNITY is a collection of love letters, but it is also a meeting of minds and of will. Davis channeled her strength and resources over the years to ensure that the man she fell in love with was able to rejoin the world. Echols was finally released in 2011. Their account of how they kept their marriage alive and evolving is both moving and miraculous; an inspiring and romantic story of a love that was capable of sustaining two people through the depths of hell and back. citylitbooks/event/conversation-damian-echols-and-lorri-davis-authors-yours-eternity and-lorri-davis-authors-yours-eternity
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