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Melissa Gilbert
@MEGBusfield
Mother, grandmother, wife, actor, director, NY Times best-selling author, advocate, activist, New Yorker, survivor, OG Halfpint.
Sep 16 • 7 tweets • 2 min read
In 1975 , our neighbor down the street, Mrs Conway, took a bunch of us kids to the Cinerama Dome in Hollywood, to see The Great Waldo Pepper. I was 11-years-old and the moment Robert Redford appeared onscreen I gasped and whispered “I’m going to marry him.” (Cont’) Image I fell in love that day. I spent decades watching his work as an actor , director with admiration , awe and a desperately fluttering heart. Many years ago, I was on a Christmas vacation with my family at Sundance and my obsession with “Bob” had become a running joke with my pal