To Ruth Bader Ginsburg, from her husband, ten days before he died.
This is from Jeffrey Toobin's excellent profile in the New Yorker:
...in June of 2010, at Johns Hopkins, doctors told Ruth that there was nothing more to be done. 'When I came to the hospital to bring him home,' she told me, 'I just pulled out the drawer next to his bed, and there was a yellow legal pad.' Marty had written a note:
6/17/10
My dearest Ruth--
You are the only person I have loved in my life, setting aside, a bit, parents and kids and their kids, and I have admired and loved you almost since the day we first met at Cornell some 56 years ago.
What a treat it has been to watch you progress to the very top of the legal world!!
I will be in JH Medical Center until Friday, June 25, I believe, and between then and now I shall think hard on my remaining health and life, and whether on balance the time has come for me to tough it out or to take leave of life because the loss of quality now simply overwhelms. I hope you will support where I come out, but I understand you may not I will not love you a jot less.
Marty
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