Answer:
yes he did. "Totally in love"
Monroe (left), who later founded Poetry Magazine, was active in city affairs in this period. Five years after Root's death, she published a warm and awestruck biography of her brother-in-law.
"I've read her biography of him, and she was totally in love with the man," said Finfer. She isn't sure, she says, whether Root had similar feelings.
That reading of their relationship gives a dramatic piquancy to a duet that Root and Monroe sing together, "Love of My Dreams." For Monroe, Root is the obvious object of longing. For Root, it's not clear.