Claire Donald

So this was another funny thing that I found.

When she would get writer's block, you know what she would do?

She would put her transcripts in the freezer and keep it there until she got another idea.

I love that.

Isn't that so interessant?

It is.

Wow, that's cool.

They were doing their thing.

They were writing.

Now, they both did want kids, but it seems like it just wasn't possible for them.

The reason was never explained.

It was just that they couldn't have kids.

Yeah.

And then one day, Joan's friend brings up the conversation of adoption with Joan.

And her friend had actually adopted her child, and she gave Joan and John the doctor who had delivered her own adopted child.

Oh.

I guess this was like...

a thing that people were having babies or leaving babies at the hospital that's how her friend got her baby so she gave john and joan this doctor's number and then in the early hours of march 3rd 1966 they get a call

And Joan was in the shower, and she burst into tears when John came in and said he just got a call from that same doctor saying they had just delivered a beautiful baby girl at St.

John's Hospital in Santa Monica, and they needed to know whether they wanted her or not.