Question: Some years ago I saw a Lifetime TV-movie with Dana Delany (the reason I stopped channel-surfing) in which she and her husband adopt his sister's children when the sister and her husband die on the same day, she of cancer and he in a commuter train accident. A few years later I was reading Kurt Vonnegut's TimeQuake, in which he describes adopting his sister's children under identical circumstances. He also mentioned that one of the adopted boys works in TV, so can you tell me whether this movie was written by said adopted Vonnegut child? Answer: The Dana Delany movie you saw was A Promise to Keep (1990) and is about writer Kurt Vonnegut 's adoption of his orphaned nephews. But it wasn't written by one of the children; it was based on the memoir Ange
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