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"  Yes, of course she was a beautiful baby. I remember her being born, in New York in 1984. Her parents, the journalists Andrew and Leslie Cockburn, \u00ADalready had the lovely and artistic Chloe, a girl of exquisite charm and calm, so it seemed only fair that the fates should give them a second daughter who would teach them what trouble was. (&amp;quot;She has,&amp;quot; Andrew sighed half-admiringly, &amp;quot;a whim of iron.&amp;quot;)  During a slightly rackety period in my own life, by which time we all lived in Washington, DC, I was the tenant of the Cockburns and the occasional supervisor of bedtime stories and suitable viewing fare for the younger generation. Olivia&amp;#039;s incandescent greenish-blue eyes seemed to miss \u00ADnothing. This was a house where there was a great deal worth observing, and family lore soon incorporated the evening where she was found eavesdropping on a dinner that featured both Mick Jagger and Richard Holbrooke. But it became clear that she had ideas of a different form of stardom. It probably helped to have a Californian mother\u2014the OC is something that you can do in a walk\u2014and an Irish father (she was to study theater in Dublin as soon as it became clear that she was born to act as well as to act up). So there&amp;#039;s no \u00ADmystery about the change of name to Ireland&amp;#039;s greatest playwright and no coincidence about later stardom in The Black Donnellys.  I wondered when she&amp;#039;d get married and of course should have predicted that she&amp;#039;d do nothing of the kind. Or not strictly. Eloped was the word that Leslie finally used to me on the telephone: the first time I&amp;#039;d ever actually heard the word in real life. She was so nearly cast as the last Bond girl, and we all said, &amp;quot;Cheer up, something better will be the silver or rather golden \u00ADlining.&amp;quot; And now we can see her all the time on House instead of once in a throwaway blockbuster. As my rheumy old eyes begin to mist, I can still say lightly to people who ask: &amp;quot;Olivia...? Yes, as a matter of fact I did know her in her younger days. You should have seen her then.&amp;quot; "^^<http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#string>
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