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up, so did Joe’s hopes of having the hoy with them always.” Always a loner, Joe grew even more distant after he lost Marilyn. His trips to San Francisco grew less and less frequent. His brother Tom took over the full-time managing of the restaurant. As much as Joe loved his home town, it seemed to bring back too many bitter memories. “He has never stopped loving Marilyn,” Ids friends say even now. But his relatives and long-time associates share the opinion that “he was taken.” Taken on a publicity merry-go-round. Joe and Marilyn even had to sneak into a basement elevator to avoid being mobbed at their wedding ceremony in San Francisco’s City Hall. Some blame Marilyn for this. One report was that, minutes after Joe proposed, she was on the phone to her studio, telling them the news. Joe was used to the press asking him questions, but before it bad always been just about baseball and not his personal life. He tried to accept it. “I have never been happier,” he told reporters on his wedding day. Marilyn, blushing, had hold of his hand. She was wearing false eyelashes, a smart brown broadcloth suit with an ermine collar, and natural polish on her nails. The reporters asked about children. “We expect to have one,” Joe said in a serious tone. “I guarantee that.” Marilyn interrupted, “I’d like to have six.” And then she giggled. The honeymoon was never over because it never really began. Shortly after the ceremony, Marilyn was back at work in Hollywood. Joe tried to accept her way of life. He couldn’t. Her long hours at the studio, her fatigue when she finally did arrive home, her associates — all of this disturbed him. Joe’s idea of home life was having a wife prepare a good meal for him and later just sitting around watching TV until bedtime. Marilyn couldn’t stand this. She felt trapped again. Yet after the divorce, Marilyn still had a hold on Joe. He was the only one permitted to see her while she was recuperating in a Los Angeles Hospital from emergency surgery. He kept tabs on her. There was the famous “wrong door” raid, when Joe and Frank Sinatra reportedly broke down the door of an apartment in which they thought Marilyn was living, it was the wrong apartment. And in January of 1955 the two were dating each other again. A reporter recognized them in a Boston restaurant. “Is this a reconciliation?” he asked. “Is it, honey?” Joe asked. She paused, as if in deep thought, and then replied, “No, just call it a visit.” The next year she married Arthur Miller. And the next year Joe started courting Marian McKnight. She reminded many people of Marilyn. She was beautiful, independent and sensitive. But a year later, when she won the title of Miss America of 1957, the romance seemed doomed. It was strangely like the fame that had come suddenly to Marilyn just after their marriage. The publicity that came with it had been a big part of their bust-up. Now it was happening again. Joe continued to date Marian after she won the title and. for a while, they seemed even closer than ever. He introduced her to all his friends, and then they spent a weekend at his boss’s home. Almost immediately after that visit, they parted. Joe was in New York the day Marilyn left for Juarez to divorce Arthur Miller. He appeared to be breaking out of his shell and seemed happier than in years. At first, he and Marilyn met in out-of-theway places. Then, after she flew back, they began to revisit all the old places where, long ago, they had fallen in love. And then, unexpectedly, Joe rejoined the Yankees, this time as a coach. Was he trying to tell Marilyn that one thing had never changed, that, even to win her back again, he still would not give up his own life to share hers? If Marilyn wanted him, one thing was the same — he was still his own man. When Joe’s family and friends first learned that he and Marilyn might marry again, they didn’t like it. But when, a few weeks later, they heard the sad reports of Marilyn’s troubled state of mind, they couldn’t help but remember the girl who had once been so eager to belong to this family, and their hearts must have gone out to her. When, for whatever the reason was, Marilyn fled to one hospital and then another, it was Joe she turned to for advice, for help, for strength. If she turned to Joe for love, he had that to give her, too. Joe has changed in the years between. He is not the fiery combination of temper and brawn he used to be. Once mad at the world, he’s learned to weather its blows. He’s more understanding now, and he’s eager for a home again. And the only home Joe DiMaggio has is the one he built for Marilyn long ago. — Bob Dean Marilyn’s in “The Misfits” for U-A. 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