All in the Family1971

I barely heard the quote by Michael Stivic but Gloria was pregnant and Mike didn't want to be a father. Apparently they had a big fight and Mike left the house. He cooled off and came back to the house. He told Gloria he apologized and wanted to write her a note … but he said a poet wrote it for him. I can't remember the poet. It was a very short poem that ended with the words "bouncing baby" or "bouncing a baby." The quote is very important to me for I have a friend who is struggling with the decision to have a baby at a fairly late age. Please reach me at 765-760-7621 or by email at:
robonieal1224@gmail.com. Thank you!!

“Look, honey, Look, honey,

I... I was wrong.

I... I really do wanna

have the baby.

Look,

I want you to read somethin'.

It says it a lot

better than I can.

It's, uh, something

Alistair Cooke wrote.”

“Alistair what?”

“Alice, the cook.”

"In the best of times, our

days are numbered anyway.

And so it would be

a crime against nature

for any generation to take

the world crisis so solemnly

that it put off

enjoying those things

for which we were

designed in the first place.

The opportunity

to do good work,

to fall in love,

to enjoy friends, to hit a ball

and to bounce a baby."