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A look back at when Kirk Douglas explained the beauty of his marriage, in his own words.

"'Kirk, why did your marriage last so long?'

'That’s easy,' I replied. 'I just told my wife, if you ever leave me, I’m going with you!'"
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"I don’t know why Anne stuck with me through those early decades ... I had a lot of anger matched by a lot of arrogance. Some people put up with me, I think, simply because I had such a wonderful wife" - Kirk Douglas, 2014 latimes.com/style/laaffair…
"Anne saved my life more than a few times ... She refused to let me join Mike Todd on his fateful flight east. We stopped speaking over that one until we heard the news the next morning. Elizabeth Taylor became a widow, but not my Anne" -Kirk Douglas, 2014 latimes.com/style/laaffair…
"When I had my stroke, [Anne] drove me to the hospital like a Formula One racer. When I wallowed .. because of my impaired speech, she made me get up & work with a speech therapist.

To this day, I write her love poems; she continues to give me tough love" latimes.com/style/laaffair…
Read more about Kirk Douglas' special marriage to Anne Douglas — in his own words — when Kirk wrote an open love letter for the L.A. Times in 2014: latimes.com/style/laaffair…
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