as well, and they corresponded sometimes during the that period but letters were lost at sea and john gindin to -- didn't write all the time so there wasn't a lot of correspondence. when abigail finally did go to europe the marriage resumed again and it's just amazing that this marriage resumed with all of the passion and interest that day of originally had in the early married years. remarkable to us. of course there wasn't an exit polls from the marriage. they couldn't have gotten divorced. there were grounds for divorce and that period but not any grounds for divorce abigail and john had met. so, it remains remarkable they did resume their marriage so compatible lee, and i felt a lot about why this is and will work the reasons why this marriage worked so well and the first course is that they loved each other. and from the early meeting between the two of them there was immense attraction. but love is a word that is clich. i don't mean in love, i don't mean a lot in a political sense of all the beautiful words you find in poetry and pictures, i mean loved in what i think was an 18th-c