'I have admired and loved you almost since the day we met': A resurfaced letter from Ruth Bader Ginsburg's husband illustrates the couple's extraordinary love story

• Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg died on Friday at age 87 due to complications with metastatic pancreatic cancer.
• Martin, her husband of 56 years, died in 2010 at age 78 after battling cancer.
• In an NPR interview from 2016, the Supreme Court Justice read a letter that Martin wrote to her while he was ill in the hospital. After her death was announced on Friday, the recording of the interview resurfaced and garnered thousands of shares and reactions.
• Ginsburg once said that Martin was "truly extraordinary for his generation" for his unwavering support of her career throughout their marriage.

A resurfaced recording of Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg reading a letter from her late husband, Martin Ginsburg, is garnering thousands of emotional reactions.

Ruth Bader Ginsburg died on Friday at age 87 due to complications with metastatic pancreatic cancer.

Martin, her husband of 56 years, died in 2010 at age 78 after battling cancer.

In a 2016 interview with NPR, the Supreme Court Justice read a letter that Martin wrote while he was in the hospital the year he died. The outlet posted the recording of the interview on Twitter Friday, and it has since been retweeted more than 7,000 times.

"I found this letter in the drawer next to Marty's bed in the hospital," Ginsburg said in the recording. "It reads: My dearest Ruth, you are the only person I have loved in my life. Setting aside a bit parents and kids, and their kids. And I have admired and loved you almost since the day we met at Cornell some 56 years ago."

Ginsburg added: "He was wrong at 56. It was nearly 60 years."

She continued reciting the letter from her husband: "What a treat it has been to watch you progress to the very top of the legal world."

"I will be in Johns Hopkins Medical Center until Friday, June 25th, I believe," Martin's letter continued. "And between then and now, I shall think hard on my remaining health and life, and consider on balance the time has come for me to tough it out or to take leave of life because the loss of quality now simply overwhelms. I hope you will support where I come out, but I understand you may not. I will not love you a jot less."

Since Friday, thousands of people have shared the recording on Twitter, with many commenting on the Ginsburgs' love story and how the two appeared to support each other.

Others have shared that hearing the Supreme Court Justice recite her late husband's letter was an emotional experience.

Ginsburg said that her husband was 'truly extraordinary for his generation' for the level of support he showed her

Martin and Ruth Bader Ginsburg fell in love when they were undergraduates at Cornell University. They got married in 1954 and both went on to study at Harvard Law.

They partnered together to raise their daughter, Jane, while they both completed coursework. Ruth later graduated first in her class from Columbia Law School while Martin landed a job at a law firm in New York City.

"I many times said that Marty Ginsburg was the first boy I met who cared that I had a brain," Ginsburg told NPR in 2016.

The Supreme Court Justice spoke about her relationship with Martin on the "Rachel Maddow Show" in 2015, saying: "In the course of a marriage, one accommodates the other. So, for example, when Marty was intent on becoming a partner in a New York law firm in five years, during that time, I was the major caretaker of our home and child. But when I started up the ACLU Women's Rights Project, Marty realized how important that work was."

In 1993, when Ginsburg was nominated by President Bill Clinton to become a Supreme Court Justice, she spoke about Martin and how his level of support was instrumental in her pursuing her work.

"I have had the great good fortune to share life with a partner truly extraordinary for his generation, a man who believed at age 18 when we met, and who believes today, that a woman's work, whether at home or on the job, is as important as a man's," Ginsburg said in the hearing.

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