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In Bohemia: A Memoir of Love, Loss, and Kindness Poetry_Gift_Guide Real Simple • AARP •A memoir of love and loss that inspires us to be our best selves. The day her fianc died suddenly of a heart attack, Katie Swenson retreated to Bohemia, the thirdfloor loft that the couple had renovated in their home in Wellesley, Massachusetts, and began to write. A visceral account of grief and the profound kindness that resonates around it, this is also the story of her hundredyearold house, named the Scarab after the Egyptian symbol for rebirth,