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A Little Girl Was Born
Maia Grace Keillor
A little girl was born to Garrison Keillor and his wife Jenny Lind Nilsson on
December 29 in New York, six pounds, 2-1/2 ounces, named Maia Grace Keillor. Baby
and mother are both in good shape. The birth occurred six days after the
mother had played violin in a performance of Messiah, and fell almost
exactly in the middle of the two-week layoff of A Prairie Home Companion: a
timely arrival. The father e-mailed as follows:
It was the most wonderful New Year's Eve of my life, sitting in a hospital
room with Jenny and our little daughter, who is lively and alert, elegant,
the most beautiful child. She seems content in my arms, seems to recognize my
voice. I worried about whether to have a child -- at 55, the arithmetic is
interesting -- and now I feel so lucky to have this little girl and to have
experienced her birth. To see your child's head appear and then her shoulders
and then the whole body, and two minutes later, to hold her in your arms, a
tiny pink baby, waving her arms, dark eyes looking around, turning toward your
voice -- this is a religious experience, one to remember forever. Happy New
Year to all, from the three of us at home.
--Garrison Keillor
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