Bijou B Feature - Postwar Years

by
albert p. delacorte

It could have been
a fairytale,
the way their marriage went.
It was almost too good to last --
and it didn't.
This is about the Reagans,
and the end of a dream.

Happy beginning: Jane met Ronnie when they worked together at Warners'.
They were married in 1940.

The Reagan Girls: Maureen Elizabeth was born in 1941. Recently she was asked what she wanted to be when she grew up; she replied, "Whistled at!" The Reagans' son Michael is 3.

So Long, Button Nose: Jane and one-year-old Maureen saw Ronnie off from their Beverly Hills home. He was an Army Captain.

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