Congratulations to them on a long and I hope happy marriage!

I was 13 and foolish when I got that bike. About a year later, I looked back on it and thought, "What the hell were you thinking? WERE you thinking?"

I'll also give my parents some credit for letting me make my own mistake.

Spent most of my bar mitzvah money on one of these. Parents said I had to leave it outside (there really wasn't a place for it unless I put it in my room). Did. Four weeks later, a tornado damaged houses on our street. Some rubbernecker stole my bike (and lots of other stuff on our street) from right in front of our townhouse. Parents bought me some cheap POS as a "replacement".

The only good part is that I never came close to damaging my future ability to have children. My personality and looks took care of that.

You're right. I was at work when I typed that and didn't have time to look up the exact stage of her pregnancy.

Actually, he was in Europe filming at the time of her murder. I agree that he should have been with her.

As for Michelle Phillips, perhaps he was having an affair with her, but I haven't read of it, and it was not while he was in Europe making the film.

They were all sentenced to death, but in 1972 the California Supreme Court ruled the state's death sentence statutes to be unconstitutional, and all of the state's death sentences were commuted to life imprisonment.

When the state legislature wrote a new death sentence bill a few years later and the governor signed it, there was no retroactive provision in it, so their sentences remained at life imprisonment.

She was something like eight months pregnant at the time of her death. My gosh, no wonder Roman went off the rails (not that I'm excusing him for anything).