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Poetry & Reflections Celebrating the Married Life
 THE MARRIAGE VOW is an unique book about monogamous love and marriage. It is both autobiographical in content, and universally philosophical in its essays and creative poetry by two writers joined in love. THE MARRIAGE VOW offers an optimistic look at relationships at a time when over 50% of all marriages end in divorce. THE MARRIAGE VOW authors, Julie Ann Wilde, a 30 year old poet from Petaluma, and Adam Ward Seligman, a 35 year old music journalist and novelist, explore their courtship, marriage, conflicts, joys and dreams for their future in simply written essays and complex emotionally charged poetry. Adam describes proposing to Julie on Fisherman's Wharf: "... I askedShe later said "yes." They eloped and were married in Reno by an Elvis Impersoniator! Julie tells of her dream lover, in a poem written before they met:
"Woman takes a lover to her Head;Julie Ann Wilde and Adam Ward Seligman met in 1991 at a Tourette Syndrome Association Support Group. After appearing together on the Doctor Dean Edell Medical Series in 1992, they began dating. In August of 1993 their relationship made front-page news when they sued Northwest Airlines for Disability Discrimination. The lawsuit - since settled in Furger and Seligman's favor - increased the protection of the rights of people with disabilities in the air. Following their marriage they lived in both the East Bay and Sonoma County, settling in Mt Shasta to write THE MARRIAGE VOW. They now live in Santa Rosa. They are Equal Partners in writing; Partners in Echolalia Press; and most important of all, Partners in marriage and friendship. POETRY AND REFLECTIONS CELEBRATING THE MARRIED LIFE "I think the poetry is generalizable to lovers and appreciate your lovely expressions. The book, itself is most unique when it explores your disabilities because you are able to give such clear and honest insights into your particular worlds. I can only imagine, that besides the lovers all over who will resonate with your love, there are probably all kinds of instructions in disabilities' courses, medical school and psychology departments who could benefit from your work."
---Stephanie Solomon "'Don't Think About Monkey's,' {editor } Adam Ward Seligman and his spouse, poet Julie Ann Wilde, have co-written a book of poetry and prose 'The Marriage Vow: Poetry and Reflections Celebrating the Married Life.' Both Adam and Julie Ann have severe TS symptoms. This work is a very personal account of their relationship from its earliest moments to the present. Fierce struggles, very happy moments and their insights about life as a union of two are bared by this couple thereby affirming their own marriage vows, and offered to readers to perhaps inspire thoughts about their own relationships.'
---Sue Lynn Levi-Pearl "Congratulations on 'The Marriage Vow.' Bill and I read it with great interest. As a married co-therapy team who has spent many years helping couples, we recognize the importance of what Julie and Adam are saying in this book. Their honesty and openness are admirable."
---Vivian Nelson, MA "I found your poetry sexy, soulful and ... real."
---Kathy Lancaster I've always regarded marriage as an union that is real enough to allow two people to pass through changes with the harmony, and strength symbolized by the yin-yang: The two abodes of energy, worlds apart in difference, pieces by themselves, creating an integral whole by wrapping around each other ... giving and receiving with grace ... in reverence of each other's heights and depths. I applaud your vision brought into reality through THE MARRIAGE VOW and through the union of your lives, giving inspiration to those living ... the single life."
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