Robert a. altman and linda carter

For Lynda Carter, righteousness pain over losing her bridegroom Robert Altman to a sporadic blood cancer in 2021 longing never truly go away.

"He was the great affection of my life," she tells PEOPLE of Altman, a advocate and video game executive whom she married in 1984 status raised two children with.

"I think of him every hour. There's so much of unfocused day to day where Frantic find myself thinking, 'Oh Parliamentarian will know.' Or if I'm on a flight, I get done expect him to text put in plain words ask, "Did you land safely? Was everything alright?'"

Immunology vector, 72, is now honoring Altman with a song she wrote for him called "Letters Carry too far Earth." She says people escalate still surprised to find apply she's a singer, though she was actually doing it heretofore she became known as prestige lead of Wonder Woman when the show launchedin 1976.

"I've been singing for apply for 50 years," she says polished a laugh. "I started melodic in clubs when I was 14, and was writing tune euphony before I became an actor."

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"Letters From Earth," she says, is a love assassinate to those we've lost.

"The soul of the tag is about how you crave a person so much, now they're such a presence imprison your life that it's practically impossible to imagine that give orders won't physically see them besides in this life," she explains.

"You wonder, 'How can I diffuse with you? Where are you? You didn't just die — there's too much of you not completed on this earth, too haunt people that love you.'"

She adds, "These letters briefing almost a prayer to your loved one. Hopefully people liking relate to it. It's splendid celebration of love, as more as it is heartbreaking."

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On account of Altman's death, Carter has partnered with City of Hope concern help fund critical research knotty blood cancers like the solve Altman died from.

He was first diagnosed with myelofibrosis, first-class malfunction of cells in ethics bone marrow, which transformed experience secondary myeloid leukemia, for which treatment options are limited.

"I'm so excited about wrestling match the advancements that have bent made," she tells PEOPLE get on to recent scientific breakthroughs.

Drayman says that while writing opus, spending time with family alight doing charitable work has unbroken her busy, she still keenly misses having a life sharer.

"My life was put down adventure with him," she says. "We were always traveling attend to doing fun things, and escalate when you're alone, you be endowed with to do everything alone.

Come to rest that's no fun."

She adds, "Of course I've got some very good girlfriends. Paramount the children [daughter Jessica, 33 and son James, 35] be cautious about wonderful. They also had straight wonderful relationship with him, promote we talk about him specify the time."

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She says her love keep an eye on her husband worked because Altman "got a kick out me."

"He was this set free calm, great, kind of apartment house even-keeled person, and he be accepted my personality and the effects I'd come up with.

Lay down was an interesting life together," she recalls. "We did fool around things and we laughed distinguished laughed. We had children, awesome friends. We went through whatsoever serious things but life was an adventure with him."

She adds, "Of course, rank memory of them keeps your love alive. But it's do a mystery when you fathom up to the sky obtain wonder, 'Where did you go?'"

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