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Starts to Arrive but Mom’s a Fan Bonnie Vaughn took it to the limit with her pregnancy—and the stork arrived along with the Eagles. The first-time mom, who lost her husband to cancer 10 days earlier and attended the concert “to keep her spirits up” after winning two front-row tickets, went into labor shortly after things got going at the CNE Monday night. But Vaughan was so determined to see the first Toronto Eagles show in 16 years, she waited until her water had broken and contractions were a few minutes apart before calling for help. Why’d she wait so long? “Hey, 'Take it to the Limit,’” she said from her Toronto East General Hospital bed. “That’s an Eagles song. Today the 29-year-old is rocking the cradle with her newborn son Phillip Nelson Vaughan, after being rolled out of the show in an ambulance. Vaughan said she normally wouldn’t have gone to the show because Phillip was so close to being born but then she won a pair of front-row tickets through a radio phone-in contest and decided to go. Her only regret? She didn’t get to stay long enough to hear the night’s final song, “Take it Easy,” her favorite Eagles tune. Having a healthy new baby takes away some of her sadness at losing her 30-year-old husband, Nelson, she said. “I was so happy he was a boy. Having just lost my husband, I wanted him to live on somehow.” |