Nana Biography

Was that a decision to have him, or just an accident?

I can’t remember. No, we didn’t try. No it was an accident, I’m sure.

And how about Bruce?

Bruce, oh it was an accident.  I wasn’t trying not to, but, Dan came home for a week and I thought it was a week where I would be terribly safe. It was right after my period. I thought that would be so safe. He went off and I was pregnant, I didn’t see him for four months, and he came back, and then we knew exactly the time that, you know, sometimes you don’t know exactly when you got pregnant, but we knew when that was. That was also proof that all the babies were eight months. That was my gestation., Which is nice.

I didn’t have that last ninth month.  They were full-size babies.

How was Don about having babies?

Oh, he was fine. He was nice with the kids, it was a very good father. They were crazy about him. We had a lot of fun with them, and we had a station wagon, piled them in. I really had a good life with him, I mean, I can’t complain about any of it. And he was, you know, kids liked him and I don’t know what to say. It’s just different now.

You said, I guess you never realized what you missed. Maybe you would have, later.

I don’t know. I don’t know that I would have. I think that, a lot of marriages are like that. Because they go on. Because we had good companionship and good in our group and we had fun. We had a lot of interests in common. We actually had more interest in common than John and I did. Much more compatibility as far as, we both liked to ski. John can’t ski. We both like to play golf. John didn’t play golf till he married me.

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