Sure, it sounds corny, she says, 'but when you love someone you love them.' Her brown eyes are misting over. 'It was the best birthday present I ever got.' 'Martina gave them to me for my birthday last year,' says Rita Mae Brown.
Downstairs, in the near-empty study, the bookshelves are filled with the 458-volume set of Loeb's Classics, a $5,000 gift. A soft color photograph of a smiling Martina Navratilova, encased in a silver and black Art Deco frame, sits on the window ledge of the second-floor office.
