Every day, since the first time they met, on the first day, it is hard to find love or claim there was a better person out there than Aretha and Darren. And from the very start, there was a fusillade of doubt and odds. Some of Aretha’s friends believed she married beneath her station, which is forgivable, if it wasn’t a writer. Time and time, they told her, you fuck writers, they are for fun, you don’t marry them, that’s like turning a hoe into a housewife.