It was April 1981, and life was in over-drive for the Gummers. Henry was now 17 months old, and was into everything. Meryl had appeared on Broadway in Alice in January. She was deep in rehearsals and dialect coaching for her upcoming movie, Sophie's Choice, while she was also wrapping up the movie Still of the Night. In the midst of all this she ( Read more... )

They enjoyed a wonderful evening with their family: laughing and celebrating. Both of them were giddy with happiness and they didn't care who saw. Once everybody left and the kids were upstairs asleep along with Meryl's dad, she went in search of her husband. She smiled when she saw him wiping the kitchen counter. "None of that husband, come with ( Read more... )

Don and Meryl were sitting in their den with her brothers and their wives.

"What's going on?" Mary asked.

Dana and Third looked at each other and then Third spoke. "Yeah, you two look worried."

"If this is about Dad we said we'd look after him while you're gone." Dana pointed out.

Maeve was pretty sure she knew what was going on. She had seen the signs ( Read more... )

Carl Raymor was sentenced to 30 years in prison as well as a permanent injunction to protect the entire Gummer family. Don and Meryl were continuing to heal from the latest blow; which brought them closer than ever. The next week and a half flew by for the Gummers as they planned their vow renewal and Don healed physically. Because of her brothers ( Read more... )

Don and Meryl had a wonderful time with their girls going out for dinner. It wasn’t something Meryl liked to do an awful lot because when she was with her family she wanted to be completely devoted to them; and she didn’t exactly care for Manhattan tourists interrupting her time with her family for a picture or autograph. She was extremely grateful ( Read more... )

It was the day after Don’s birthday and Meryl was in the office catching up on bills and working on details for Christmas. Don still had to take it very easy, and be incredibly careful due to his injuries, so he was taking a nap after their busy day the day before. Meryl felt like they were finally getting their lives back after the past 3 months. ( Read more... )

Don fell asleep on the way out to their house, and Meryl smiled when she pulled up to their house. She took a minute just to sit back and take in their beautiful home, and then looked over at Don. She couldn't imagine what would have happened if her dream would have been a reality and he didn't remember her, he didn't remind this. Everything about ( Read more... )

Meryl went into her father's office and looked through the bills. He had insisted on paying them himself, but she noticed alot of late notices. She even noticed he was in jeopardy of having his electricity turned off. She was incredibly concerned, because every time she asked him about it, he said it was being taken care of, when obviously it wasn' ( Read more... )

A week later, and it was Don's birthday. He still wasn't able to do much, including make love no matter how much he begged his doctor and Meryl, but at least he could walk their stairs and sleep in his own bed with his wife. Meryl rolled over on the morning of Don's birthday and smiled at him sleeping beside her. She had an idea. She knew how much ( Read more... )

It seemed like the longest cab ride of Meryl's life. All she wanted to know was that her husband was okay, but all she knew was his vitals were good which was wonderful, but she needed to know more. She called Third to keep her mind off things, and he was positive and encouraging as always, and made her feel better when he said he would go pick up ( Read more... )