Fifty Years of Staying: A Story of War, Marriage, and the Choice to Return
An American Girl by S. Naomi Main is an autobiographical account that documents a fifty-one-year relationship defined by the long shadow of the Vietnam War and the quiet persistence of faith. The story begins in 1968 at a small-town diner, where a nineteen-year-old soldier on leave met a fifteen-year-old waitress. What started as a chance meeting between Mark Main and Sharon Sholl became a lifelong partnership that survived decades of external pressure and internal struggle.
Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada, 15th Apr 2026 – This is not a polished romance of easy wins. Main writes with a blunt, first-person precision about the friction that comes with half a century of shared history. She records the early heartbreak of a “Dear John” letter, the grief of losing a first love to combat, a...