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"Just before he left, though, there was another shock. Jackie Gibson was pregnant, the result of an unsuccessful attempt to fend off a drunken Woody on Pete Seeger's couch one midwinter night. She wanted money for an abortion. Cisco, discussing the matter with Woody and Marjorie one evening, volunteered to say that he'd slept with Jackie too and thus take the weight off Woody's shoulders. Woody said little at the time, but then--without Marjorie's knowledge--he wrote a scandalous letter to Jackie, which alternated between frenzied erotica and a plea not to have the abortion. He said he didn't want another of his children to die, but didn't offer any plans or alternatives. Jackie was understandably outraged, and went ahead and paid for the abortion herself, vowing never to speak to the man again."Hyperlinks not in original.
