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'In Love' tells the true story of a writer supporting her husband's euthanasia choice

The question overshadowing Amy Bloom's memoir is how far you'd be willing to go for the one you love. Would you agree to help your beloved end his life when he receives a hopeless diagnosis?
Source: Random House

Amy Bloom's In Love announces itself on its cover as "A Memoir of Love and Loss." Of course, that would describe so many personal accounts about the pain of losing beloved parents, partners, children, and friends (and the joy of sometimes finding new love, too). But Bloom's memoir certainly isn't run-of-the-mill.

As in her novels and short stories — , Bloom's subject is, once again, love writ large. But the question overshadowing this memoiris how far you'd be willing to go for the one you love. Would you agree

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