“Ali would have been happier with a life that was simpler than the one we’ve ended up with,” writes U2 frontman Bono of Ali Hewson, as he reflects on their 40 years of marriage in a heartfelt essay in the December issue of British Vogue.
The walls of the Martello tower were made of granite and seven feet thick. It was a fort containing three circular rooms, two bathrooms, and a kitchen built into the walls. The living room was like an igloo with a proud hollow for a fireplace. At another opening, a solid stone, winding staircase led to what can only be described as the “lookout” we slept in: A glass room from which we could watch over the promenade of the seaside town of Bray.
I’m not sure you would call the tower a house, but it was the first dwelling Ali and I owned and lived in, and it felt wildly romantic after having been holed up in the band’s rehearsal room on the beach in Sutton. In their day, Martello towers like this were serious military technology. They were a line of 19th-century defence against Napoleon, who was always expected to invade England through Ireland.
Being kindly and graceful, Ali still surprises people with her jokes and forthrightness. Polite, but absent of politeness, you might not be prepared for her tough-minded reading of the world or the people around her. Inscrutable but not unknowable, she will let her soul be searched only if you reciprocate, and she is ready for the long dive. Best to arrive at her fort defenceless to have half a chance at challenging her own almost unbreachable defence system.
Ali would have been happier with a life that was simpler than the one we’ve ended up with. It wasn’t long into ourthat I began to sense she was becoming distant from the life we were living. Ali had never been “just” my girlfriend, and now she was never going to be “just” my wife. We were equal partners in an adventure we hadn’t figured out: Our path.
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