Preface
March 15，1983
It has been just over two years to the day that Sherry
and I began writing this book. I met her at a concert in
H0us on， Texas， on February 14， I981， whei~ she had
been sent to inte~iew me for a magazine argo e. She
heard me sing and speak and later told me that I should
write a book. I said， \"Yes... I d like to...， Would you
help me?\" It sounded quite simple， and indeed she and I
thought it would be.
Sherry ~me to Pranl~n to begin the writing (or rather
to begin the talking into the tape recorder) on March 25，
1981. On her first visit our talks about the years between
1968 and 1979， when I was married to Richard Roberts.
were lotiy， generous， and orderly. I recalled events and
e of all the characters in these chapters rather mag-
\"mously， Sherry bought it (or so I thought). Yes， this
was going to be one of those \"untouched， unscarred，
~d unscathed by disaster\" books. I was looking very
much gke an emotional giant riding high above the ef-
fects of the storm， my heart miraculously bearing no
permanent pockmarks of pain.
Mter her return to her home in Orlando， Florida， she
eaUed， saying something to the effect that if it was all so
gloriously wonderful between the principal characters o1
my marriage and me. why was I now living with my two
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