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" P.S.P.S.S.! No, I will never get the letter
written and finished. It will always need
postscripts. I end one and six minutes after
have to send more. All my life I must write
at this letter-this letter of love to the great
woman who came and knew and loved. All
my life this must go on! "
Carl meant that quite literally. In June
1908, when Carl was 30 and Lilian was
25, the two wed and began their life as
husband and wife.
A Man and Woman of Many Names
When Carl and Lilian tied the knot, there
was no wedding ring. The couple also
tweaked the traditional wedding vows to
omit the obey clause, says John W. Quinley,
a western North Carolina historian
and expert in all-things Sandburg.
" It was a rather avant-garde change of
gender roles, " Quinley notes.
Carl and Lilian did something else
rather unusual in the warmer months
of 1908: They renamed one another.
Lilian's family, who immigrated from
Luxembourg, long called her " Paus'l, " a
term of endearment meaning " paws " or
" pussycat. " But when a younger cousin
" All my life I must write at this letter-
this letter of love to the great woman
who came and knew and loved. All my
life this must go on. "
struggled to say " Paus'l, " the family adopted
" Paula " instead.
While visiting the Steichen family
farm near Menomonee Falls, Wisconsin,
Carl heard this tale and decided to officially
rename his love.
" My father liked that name and accepted
it for my mother's ever after, "
Helga writes in her 1978 book. In those
balmy days at the farm, Paula decided
she too would do some renaming. Nixing
the formality of " Charles, " she referred
to her poet as " Carl, " " Cully, " " Carlo, " or
" Sandy " thereon.
Literally and figuratively, Quinley
says, the two made a name for one another.
Though Paula by no means edited
Carl's work, the University of Chicago
graduate and polyglot read each poem
with a sharp eye.
" If it wasn't for her encouragement,
he may have given up, " Quinley notes.
" Carl was in his mid-30s before he ever
had a breakthrough poem. "
Carl reciprocated the support. After
moving to Chikaming Farm, an estate
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