Author Amy Krouse Rosenthal, who made headlines earlier this month after writing her husband’s dating profile for after she was gone, has passed away this week.
The devoted wife and children’s book author penned a dating profile for her husband of 26 years, in the hopes the “right person” might read it.
Her agent confirmed this week that Amy had passed away from ovarian cancer, aged 51.
Krouse wrote the New York Times piece entitled You May Want to Marry My Husband in homage to her relationship, as she faced her final days with the disease.
The author wrote that she wanted to “create a general profile for Jason right here, based on my experience of co-existing in the same house with him for, like, 9,490 days.”
She then goes on to list his qualities, each illustrating the ways in which her husband has shown his love for her.
The piece reads very much as a love letter to her partner of three decades, with Krouse saying: “He is an easy man to fall in love with. I did it in one day.”
Krouse also recounts an experience of writing her latest memoir where she invited a reader to suggest a design so they could get matching tattoos.
“In September, Paulette [the reader] drove down to meet me at a Chicago tattoo parlour,” she writes.
“She got hers (her very first) on her left wrist. I got mine on the underside of my left forearm, in my daughter’s handwriting.
“This was my second tattoo; the first is a small, lowercase ‘j’ that has been on my ankle for 25 years. You can probably guess what it stands for.
“Jason has one too, but with more letters: ‘AKR.'”
At the close of the essay, Krouse leaves a blank space, “as a way of giving you two the fresh start you deserve.”
She ends the touching piece: “With all my love, Amy.”
Her friend and agent Amy Rennert said: “Everything Amy did was life and love affirming.
“She was such a bright light with a great sense of wonder. Amy loved her family. She loved words, ideas, connections.
“She taught us that life’s seemingly small moments are not really small at all.”
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