![]() The exchange of letters continued and the friendship deepened and continued for years. ![]() But he sensed something more in the letter from Beth Moore and he wrote back. Moore was an English teacher from Connecticut, one of a number of women who started writing to Christy after reading My Left Foot, which was published in 1954.Īt the time, Christy got quite a few flirtatious letters from women who had been moved by his story. Apart from the revelations about Mary Carr, the book reveals that before Christy met his future wife he had been having a lengthy long-distance love affair with a married American woman called Beth Moore. His first real physical love affair was with an older woman. His sister Ann said this week that "Christy was always falling in love". ![]() He loved literature, he loved life, he loved drink, he loved company, and above all he loved women. ![]() Yet Christy lived as fully as he could, as the controversial new biography written with the co-operation of the Brown family shows. The sad truth is that we don't expect disabled people to have much of a sex life. and particularly the fact that, in spite of his disability, he had a very active sex life. But the shock also seemed to be because the book containing the revelations also gave a very different picture of the disabled Dublin writer's life. ![]()
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