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Hekate

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49. In recent years I actually got to see the episode where she broke the news to Desi...

Fri May 1, 2020, 12:55 AM

May 2020

She shows up at one of his performances and persuades the band to play a lullaby. Goodness, how surprised he was when he figured it out! Ha ha.

Thing was, she was wearing a maternity outfit and about 8 months along. Fancy, expensive, outfit, too -- nothing lke that ever showed up in my neighborhood.

Most of the Lucille Ball episodes and bits that I have seen have been as an adult watching PBS documentaries on the history of (take your pick): television, television comedy, women in television comedy, women entrepreneurs in the television industry... She was really something.

Unfortunately for my tv viewing in her heyday when I was a kid -- my mom couldn't stand her.

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