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Life and Death Matters
the opposite: the issue of parents needing to live for,
and/or with, their yet unborn children.
I have always believed that special kids and special
parents were meant to get together. This is an
astounding list of "Who's Who" of adoptive parents, not
to mention millions of others who, although not
famous, have lovingly assumed that surrogate role with
dignity and stewardship:
actress Jamie Lee Curtis ... actress Nell Carter. :.
actor Ted Danson ... actors Tom Cruise and
Nicole Kidman ... actress Michele Pfeiffer .. .
singer Pearl Bailey ... actor Paul Newman .. .
actors Roy Rogers and Dale Evans ... columnist
Estelle Parsons ... humorist Art Buchwald ...
baseball player Willie Mays ... actress Gloria
Swanson ... Hedy Lamarr ... actor Bob and
Dorothy Hope ... Joan Fontaine ... actress Bette
Davis ... actress Helen Hayes ... actress Eve
Arden ... actor Henry Fonda ... actor George
Burns ... actors Burt Reynolds and Loni Anderson
... Senator Lloyd Bentson ... Congressman James
Oberstar ... Senator Paul Simon ... Senator Larry
Craig ... clothing designer Oscar de la Renta ...
actor Sammy Davis, Jr.... entrepreneur John
DeLorean ... actress Mia Farrow ... singer John
Denver ... actor Ed McMahon ... actor Carrol
O'Conner ... actress Valerie Harper ... actress
Julie Andrews ... Charles Bronson and Jill Ireland
... baseball player Tim Burke ... talk show
hostess Sally Jesse Raphael ... newscaster
Barbara Walters ... Congresswoman Marjorie
Margolies-Mezvinsky ... Congresswoman Deborah
Pryce ... Congressman Ron Klink ... Congressman
Thomas Bliley ... Senator Gordon Humphrey ...
Senator Jesse Helms ... and last but certainly not
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