For always

Because Kurt Vonnegut’s handwriting was legible even in his 20s, his adoring letters to Jane could be printed in their original form with their sketches, cartoons, scribbles. In Love, Kurt: The Vonnegut Love Letters, 1941-1945, there is heady intimacy, characteristic wryness – and Dresden. Kurt and Jane did not stay together forever. Jane reaches for Kurt decades later, in her final hours. Edith, the oldest daughter, rings Kurt and holds the phone. Jane asks, “Kurt, I need to go. Do you have any idea how I can leave this ruined body?” As in the early letters, he tells her exactly.