I've Kissed You for the Last Time: Across Time and Distance

I've Kissed You For The Last Time is a book about lost and found relationships in the author's first 40 years. His self-betrayal contributes to the betrayal of the woman he loves and the demise of his first marriage. It is the loss of her love that teaches the author the depths of grief and the heights of love.Through the loss of love, the author regains the self he had betrayed. He decides that only in being true to one's self can a lover have anything to offer to a loved one. But the journey to recovery turns out to be much more painful than the author had imagined. He thought he was ready for the end of marriage. He was wrong!He finally knew he had kissed his wife for the last time. But, it would be a while before he could kiss her ghost goodbye.

Bruce Braden was born in Mt. Pleasant, Pennsylvania. He first fell in love at age seven. He entered a Catholic seminary at fourteen, left just shy of seventeen. He married at twenty. He earned a BA in Sociology, then spent six years in the Army. Divorce came when he was twenty-nine. He received a Master's in Personality Theory and Religion at thirty-one and worked briefly in mental health. Since 1985, he has been an Indianapolis city letter carrier.Bruce resides in Carmel, Indiana with his wife, Linda. For the past twenty years, he has been researching and reporting on religions, mythologies, and the writings of America's Founding Fathers.