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‘Grace And Grit’ Shares The Real-Life Love Story Of Ken And Treya Wilber From Denver

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8min 39sec
Monica Castillo / CPR News

They’d been married just 10 days when the diagnosis came. Treya Killam Wilber had breast cancer. It was a battle she and her husband, Denver philosopher Ken Wilber, would wage together -- until her death in 1989. Wilber shared their love story in the 2001 book “Grace and Grit.” Now it’s a movie. Director Sebastian Siegel adapted the story for the big screen.