Word: gigi
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Dates: during 2000-2009
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DOROTHY (BUSH) KOCH Born: 1959 A homemaker in Conn. Married to Robert, 40. Children; Sam LeBlond, 16; Ellie LeBlond, 13; Robert Koch, 7; Gigi Koch...
...impetus for change comes from small groups of homespun activists. In suburban Pittsburgh, Pa., Gigi Kelly, a nurse and mother, was inspired to begin a local campaign after a healthy 8-lb. baby boy was left in a trash bag behind her family's church. Kelly found an old laundry basket, lined it with a warm blanket and put it on her front porch. Then she called reporters with a plea for young mothers to bring their babies to her. I'll take it from there, she promised. Nobody has taken up her offer yet, but still she waits...
...Gigi, the secretary, is sitting behind a desk in a room straight out of the '80s. Big purple plushy couch thing, funky colors, all very modern, very Madonna. Gigi calls our contact, we are sent to the twenty-fifth floor...
...They see us walking back through those security guards, and you can almost smell the jealousy. This time, we breeze right by the security guard. He doesn't look up. But security guard #2 doesn't remember us from an hour before. We tell him to ask Gigi. We know Gigi will recognize us. Gigi frustratedly looks us up and down, and says she's never seen us before in her life. We spout off some jargon and names and one rings a bell somewhere. She lets us back in. I am happy to return to my seat...
...Nick Carter, of course, so the Backstreet Boys hold the number one and the shrieking girls up the decibel level one last time. The show wraps, we wave goodbye to Megan and Kelly, the woman at the coat check compliments my sweater, we are ushered out into Gigi's place, and we head past security guards 1,2,3 into the fresh, and rather uncool, New York...