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30 July 2025 - Elbląg
Sophie Elmhirst has woven a true British love story. Suffering together. Maurice and Maralyn is not quite Endurance, but it's still a story of overcoming hardship on the sea against impossible odds with no hope of survival. Maralyn's foolish hope kept them alive when logically giving up to the Pacific made more sense than fighting on and living a slow death with no hope of rescue. On a life raft 118 days after their boat sank, eating turtles and fish and sharks, they survived. Celebrity after that allowed them to afford a second, successful trip. Then she died of cancer and he limped along without her in England, a country they meant to leave and never see again on their first voyage. Not such romantic nonsense that "you complete me" line in Jerry Maguire.
