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They broke the news quietly. Dinner at the Lennon house was just over, and Dianne Lennon Gass nodded to her husband in one of those wifely signals that other people, even family, never notice. Then Dick made the simple announcement:
"DeeDee and I are going to adopt a baby."
Sis Lennon, her eyes misted over with tears, was the first to speak. "It will be good," she said, "to hold a baby again." Then, everybody was talking at once, hugging Dianne, slapping Dick's back, laughing happily at the thought of the first Lennon grandchild. Nobody, of course, even pretended to be surprised.
There was no denying that DeeDee and Dick would have preferred to start their family with a child of their own creation. But if this hadn't happened in the first two years
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THAT CHANGED THEIR LIVES
of marriage, then their family and their friends had pretty well accepted the fact that they would adopt one. It was only a question of how long they would wait.
When, finally, they came to their decision, father Bill Lennon couldn't have been more proud. "The important thing," he said, "is that they didn't sit around feeling sorry for themselves, because the big event didn't happen. They are acting to start their family now. These kids have so much love in their hearts, they have to share it with a child."
Sis felt the same way. "It seems only yesterday that we were cradling DeeDee .in our arms," she said. "And now she's a wife and soon she'll be cradling her own child. I'm so happy . . . and so grateful to them both for doing this." Yet as much as the baby meant to Dianne's parents, it meant even more, in a way, to her sisters. (Continued on page 84)
For Peggy, Kathy and Janet, the news had special meaning.
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