Poetic Obituaries: Ms. [Carol] Adair was the life partner of Kay Ryan,

to whom she was married twice--once at San Francisco City Hall in 2004, the second time at the Marin Civic Center in 2008, on the same day Ryan learned she had been named U.S. poet laureate. They were together for 30 years.

"Carol always wondered what she was made of," Ryan said. "In December she wrote that 'what's at the bottom of me is optimism and will.'

from Marin Independent Journal: Carol Adair, College of Marin instructor, dies at 66

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