 Throughout her undergraduate and medical school attendance , she dated Duane M. J. Green , an engineer . The couple married while she was studying at the University of Kansas . The couple lived together in Independence , Missouri , while Debora finished her residency , but by 1978 they had separated and then divorced . Debora cited basic incompatibility as the reason for the divorce — " [ ... W ] e had absolutely no common interests " , she was later quoted as saying — but the divorce was friendly . 
