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...news is about Jessica, our first grandchild (have a cigar; no, don't), who was born on March 1, just under 7 lbs. and 19 in. big. I hold her on the couch as she sleeps swaddled--part baby, part blanket--in the crook of my arm. Her harpist's fingers twitch in independent dreams. The threads of blue veins above her barely visible eyebrows run like rivers on a map. It comes back to you, holding babies--the surprisingly substantial weight...
...slow," a former classmate said at the Oklahoma City home of Allen's mother. Mary Allen herself is marginally articulate. She sat barefoot in her parlor, crying at the mention of Wanda while a roach tiptoed over a grandchild's sneaker. A relative with Tourette's syndrome--one of several kin with disabilities--called, and the speaker phone broadcast a tirade in which he threatened a member of the defense team. "It's hard to believe," Presson said, "but Wanda Jean is the brain trust of that family...
Quine is survived by three daughters, a son, five grandchildren and a great-grandchild...
...missed opportunity," says Andrea Feirstein, director of college-savings plans for Salomon Smith Barney. "The 529 plans offer great flexibility and great tax benefits for anyone who has a child in their life, whether it's their child, their grandchild or a godchild...
When she met Drew, whatever pieces were left of Karenna's wild-child soul seemed to come to peace. "They were so intense, so focused and secure," says Megan Colligan, a college pal. Last year Gore got his first grandchild, Wyatt, born conveniently on the Fourth of July. As she does with her father, Karenna seems to delight in her husband for the things others might see as strange. Drew, 34, who works for a biotech venture-capital fund, is bright, attractive and good-natured. But like Gore, his mind is sometimes transfixed by the academic and arcane, as witnessed...