In October 1962, Josefson said, she gave birth to their daughter, Liza. By then, she had misgivings about her marriage; the bloom was off the rose. Reeve’s job jeopardized her life, and now her daughter’s, too. And it made him hard to love. He would be dispatched to remote areas of the world for months at a time, returning with no explanation for where he’d been or what he’d been doing. In 1962, he was always going off to Cuba, and after the missile crisis he decided it would be best to send his family back to Sweden. They returned to Ellen’s homeland sometime before JFK died, as she recalled.
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