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A Marriage at Sea A True Story of Love, Obsession, and Shipwreck

Sophie Elmhirst

THE RUNAWAY Maurice and Maralyn make an odd couple. He’s a loner, awkward and obsessive; she’s charismatic and ambitious. But they share a horror of wasting their lives. And they dream – as we all dream – of running away from it all. What if they quit their jobs, sold their house, bought a boat, an...

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Corrigan described Elmhurst's account of a 1972 couple adrift after a whale knocked a hole in their sloop, emphasizing their mental resilience and smallscale coping strategies.

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A Marriage at Sea by Sophie Elmhurst tells how in 1972 Morris and Marilyn Bailey spent four months adrift in the middle of the Pacific after a whale knocked a hole in their wooden sloop, holding thems...

— Episode: Homelessness In The New Gilded Age

Episode: Homelessness In The New Gilded Age

Corrigan described Elmhurst's account of a 1972 couple adrift after a whale knocked a hole in their sloop, emphasizing their mental resilience and smallscale coping strategies.

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A Marriage at Sea by Sophie Elmhurst tells how in 1972 Morris and Marilyn Bailey spent four months adrift in the middle of the Pacific after a whale knocked a hole in their wooden sloop, holding themselves together mentally by focusing on small things like the card games that Marilyn devised.

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