Sometimes things are not what they seem to be. We've all experienced that in one way or another. Tom (Beardsley) North grew up in the family made famous by Lucille Ball and Henry Fonda who played the parents in the movie "Yours, Mine and Ours." It was one of those "perfect families" you see on the big screen—a story patterned after the Beardsleys. The family was portrayed as a comical and harmonious blend of Helen North's eight children, Frank Beardsley's ten children and two of "their children" as only Hollywood could contrive. But the movie and reality were far apart. Tom tells what it was r
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