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Roman Polanski pens book intro about former wife Sharon Tate

Roman Polanski pens the intro to an upcoming book, “Sharon Tate: Recollection,” by her sister Debra Tate.

“Even after 40 years, it is difficult to write about Sharon,” Polanski writes of his former wife, murdered in 1969 by the Charles Manson family, in a foreword dated Oct. 16, 2013. “It is impossible, of course, to imagine what might have been if Sharon had lived. But this book allows me to remember what was.”

He says a particular image of Sharon with her hair tied back “captures the Sharon I knew and will always know.”

Debra writes of first meeting Polanski in the early fall of 1967 in San Francisco and taking the couple to dinner.

“I didn’t know it at the time, but his intention was to ask Sharon for her hand in marriage (a second time) at the restaurant, so the family could be included,” she says.

The book, out June 10, includes quotes from Sharon’s “Valley of the Dolls” co-star Patty Duke, Joan Collins and Jane Fonda, who writes, “She was very pregnant the last time I saw her at that house and turned down a joint that was being passed around.”