In memory of Barbara Faith

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Barbara Faith de Covarrubias (February 19, 1921, Cleveland, Ohio-October 10, 1995), was a U.S.American writer of more than 40 romance novels as Barbara Faith (her maiden name) from 1978 until the day of her death. She won a Rita Award in 1982.

"When I reached thirty-five I completely turned my life around," exclaimed the tall, blue-eyed blonde. "I'd been working at the same job-broadcasting—for ten years. I was single. My relatives were always introducing me as, 'This is my niece-Barbara-she-never-married,' like it was a part of my name! I quit my job."

Barbara's father flew in from Tennessee for the sole purpose of telling her that she was "out of her gourd to give up a job where she would get a lovely pension when she was sixty-five." With dire predictions hanging over her head, she packed typewriter, books, blue jeans, and herself in her ancient car and headed from Miami Beach to Mexico.

"I ended up in a charming colonial town named San Miguel de Allende. I rented a small two-story (with roof garden) apartment for $50 a month. I shopped in the outdoor market I took some writing courses, I wrote another bad novel, I learned a language, and—thank the lord—I met my husband," she said. "Alfonso was a bullfighter. The minute somebody said, 'Barbara, I would like you to meet Alfonso," I knew. Boy, oh boy, I really knew that he was the one." Barbara married former bullfighter Alfonso Covarrubias in Tampiaco, Mexico, on 11 November 1970.

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