After her illustrious film career was over her last film was How to Commit Marriage (1969) with Bob Hope she tucked away her Oscars in her den and focused on the present, giving generously of her time, money and talent to the Church, especially Sacred Heart in Palm Desert, and The Arthritis Foundation.

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Some gay-rights leaders put changing the Scouts policy on the front burner last spring after an incident in which Ohio mother Jennifer Tyrrell lost her position as a den leader in her son's Cub Scout pack because she is lesbian.

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Now 11, Gigi said she appreciates her parents' honesty that night in the den two years ago when they told her about her bone cancer.

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The teenager left her home port of Den Osse in the Netherlands on 4 August, accompanied by her father Dick Dekker, and arrived in Portugal ten days later.

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Her father had somehow ambulated in from the den, and was arranged sideways at the kitchen table, his bright-white cast propped on a second chair.

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The protest was sparked last year after Ohio Cub Scout den leader Jennifer Tyrrell was forced to step down from her position in her son's Cub Scout pack because she is openly gay.

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Her father could not see it from where he was propped before the television in the den.

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