cindy and john mccain

From left: Cindy and John McCain in 1980, the year they got married

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There was the life that a young Cindy Hensley imagined for herself with John McCain in those swooning first months after they met in Hawaii in 1979 — and then there is the life they went on to lead together: a life of adventure and victory, of setbacks, of loss.