But this model of marriage has left many less-educated, less well-off Americans without a viable life script.

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His personal life settled down, with his marriage to Somalian model Iman in 1992.

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Of course, Beauvoir was one-half of a world-famous open marriage, and she was therefore not a model for most American women, even the most frustrated.

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Stewart has two grown-up children from his first marriage to Alana Hamilton, and a daughter by model Kelly Emberg.

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Views on things like climate change, war and peace, the present capitalist economic model and poverty would all be welcome contributions to the public discourse, rather than lectures on gay marriage.

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The letters also show that Pierre was very often the mediator in family feuds particularly when the doughty Madame Henri Matisse finally packed her bags after over 40 years of marriage, accusing her elderly husband of having an affair with Lydia Delectorskaya, his Russian assistant and model.

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