Gene Cartwright

Half Moon, Full Heart Gene Cartwright

Half Moon, Full Heart--

a love story spanning fifty years. "Whole woman? Whole woman?" Rachel felt her heart banging against her chest wall. She felt an unfamiliar rage surge within her.

"So I'm... I'm only whole because I have breasts? Is that what you're saying? Is it? Damn you, David! Is that all I mean to you? You'd feel differently, if it were you...you with testicular cancer and one or both of your balls had to go."

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Their first time alone, really alone.-- 

"And they danced. Bathed in the soft glow of a half moon, they danced. David Joe held Jessie Marie as close as he knew how--as close as he dared, and they danced. He held her so close he felt their hearts beating in unison like a lovers' duet, and they danced. They danced to every song that followed; until the battery in the small transistor radio grew weak, and the melodic sounds of The Platters faded. And even after the radio fell silent, and the night grew old, they danced." 

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Following a diagnosis of breast cancer, former Deputy White House Press Secretary, Rachel Marin's film director husband abandons her. Though a successful, professional woman, her world collapses. She attempts suicide then struggles to lift herself from the basement of her life.

 On a road trip across country, she stops in a small, Texas town and discovers reasons to live forever. 'Half Moon, Full Heart' has been called the best love story of the past fifty years. Some describe it as a cross between: Romeo and Juliet, Bridges of Madison County, and Cold Mountain. You be the judge.