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EDDIE TOGETHER
For Children’s Sake
hugged him, but he had to be very careful.
To hug them back as hard as he felt happy would have hurt them.
Eddie Fisher might have hurt his children’s mother, but he’d die before he hurt those kids.
It might surprise many, but Eddie Fisher and Debbie Reynolds have gone to unusual lengths not to hurt those kids. At the present time they are closer together as mother and father than they were as husband and wife. As a married couple, a woman came between them. As mother and father, their children have kept them together.
It is a strange togetherness ... a togetherness which, oddly enough, is approved by Harry Karl, Debbie’s second husband.
“In some respects,” says a friend of Debbie’s, "it is a magnificient conspiracy. Somehow, with care and meticulous behavior at the right times, Debbie and Eddie have preserved an illusion for their children. To Carrie and Todd, Mommy and Daddy are still together. Yes, these children are young and the cold facts of the situation are beyond them, though someday they will understand. Oh, it isn’t that Debbie has concealed anything from the children! But she has, with some miraculous facility, dissipated almost entirely the thought that anything is wrong between their parents. As far as the children are concerned, their home and their parents are solid. The fact that Debbie and Eddie live apart is nothing to them, just a crazy arrangement between two adults that is more fun for them than inconvenient.” For now, anyhow, it works.
And so carefully (Continued on page 82)
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