![]() He loved nothing better than announcing our love to the world. It bothers me now when somebody says, 'Well, he wouldn't want this book.' They have no idea who George is. "If I wrote about anything other than him, he got a little bit jealous. His love for Wade rivals John Lennon's famous protectiveness of Yoko Ono. Of course, it wouldn't be Carlin without the obsessiveness. Our motivation was, 'How happy can we make the other person?' It worked." "That was the way that we stayed romantic. "That was the way that we flirted," Wade said. I didn't really know about the notes until after he died." They were always calling and texting each other. "They poured a lot of attention on each other. "It was definitely something that was particular to their relationship," says Carlin's daughter, Kelly Carlin McCall. Carlin was constantly wooing and flirting. ![]() Was it a competition? Yeah, it was an entertaining, fun competition … I'll just never have that again."īut it goes beyond that. "We were just kind of showing off for each other. It just got to be this creative mishmash of stuff," she said. "He would try and top me and write things. ![]() She calls Courtship a goofy blueprint for having a relationship. Wade's fascinating book, organized like a delicious peek into Carlin's desk ("and into his heart," says the author), also shows their playful competitive streak. "We were different together than we were individually." In fact, he'd go up to people and go, 'Be cool, man,'" she said. Every day that I was with him, I felt cool. Madly in love and totally silly, the relationship lasted 10 years. But the iconoclast (and dog lover) of seven-little-words fame fell hard.
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