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As for Donaldson , he winds up his story briefly describing how Pauline Pfeiffer wooed Hemingway away from Hadley , and how Hadley nobly gave up the man who no longer loved her�at least not as a wife he wished to possess . Hadley could not heal the psychic wound that Ernest experienced when Agnes von Kurowsky jilted him , Donaldson concludes . “ All his life he [ Hemingway ] consistently and often cruelly broke off relationships before wife or friend could do the same to him .” I think Donaldson gets carried away , forgetting that the redoubtable Martha Gellhorn certainly did not wait for Hemingway to reject her . And then�I guess from the height of Rushmore�he adds : “ So the marriage [ to Hadley ] did not and could not last . If it hadn ’ t been Pauline Pfeiffer , it would have been someone or something else .” Okay , I suppose . But who knows ?
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