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friendship and a sense of humor.
We really enjoy our careers and
share each day every night," Kent
on't you know any Jewish
explains. "I'm, like, 'Oh, God, the
doctors?
funniest thing happened on the set ...
That's what Heather
He's, like, 'Can you believe this?' We
Paige Kent — who was fed support each other totally and [a rela-
up with a short string of losers and
tionship] doesn't mean anything if you
near-misses about five years ago —
don't have that.
asked of a good friend's boyfriend, a
"Working hard, we tend to stay
transplant sur-
close to our great
geon.
home in Pacific
The good doc-
Palisades during the
tor did indeed
week and watch
know a person
movies on TV," she
with those quali-
says. "On week-
fications: Dr.
ends, we hike in
Terry Dubrow, a
the woods, run on
plastic surgeon he
the beach and
knew from med-
Rollerblade side-by-
ical school.
side. We have such
Kent's gentle
a good time togeth-
nudge was, "Call
er and don't really
him now!" They
want to give that
arranged a blind
up yet, but children
date — and he
are definitely in our
fell in love with
plans. I would
her at first sight.
think within a year
"I fell in love
or two. "
with this guy
Off the top of
about six weeks
her head, Kent can
later, and I'm so
think of only one
glad I did,"
negative aspect to
laughs the star of
her husband's pro-
the drama series
fession. When
That's Life (9
people
press me
Heather Paige.Kent: No more losers.
p.m. Fridays,
about Terry's job; I
CBS), now
tell them he is a
shooting its sec-
surgeon and try to
ond season.
leave it at that. But when they go,
"He kept calling and we had a good
`What kind of surgery?' I say, 'The
time — but I just didn't know if I
plastic variety.' They go, 'Oh,' and
should keep on dating him until he
immediately look down at my chest.
took me home one night after a movie
"Then I have to say, 'They're real.
and gave me a fabulous, fabulous
We met on a blind date, not a consul-
kiss," says Kent, delighted to share her tation.'"
good fortune.
"On his way home, Terry called me
Role Playing
on his cell phone and said, 'Kissing
you is like when you're a kid waking
Kent, a fifth-generation Jewish-
up on a Saturday morning, realizing
American whose ancestors hail from
that you don't have to go to school
Russia, Austria and Poland, is perfect-
ly happy on That's Life portraying
and finding that amazing spot in the
pillow again.' He had me — it was all
Lydia DeLucca, a thirty-something
over.
working-class Italian-American
The marriage works on many levels,
Catholic somewhere in New Jersey
according to the slim, trim, 32-year-
who dumps her blue-collar fiance and
old brunette — including passion,
returns to college.
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EIRIK KNUTZEN
Copley News Service

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