Patrick Kennedy to marry

Son of late Ed Kennedy to wed

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Patrick Kennedy, son of the late Senator Edward Kennedy, will marry his fiancé Amy Petitgout, a 32 year-old sixth-grade school teacher and mother of three-year-old daughter Harper from a previous marriage.

Amy teaches history at the Northfield Community School in New Jersey where the couple, both Catholics, have been living for over a year.

They met when Kennedy travelled to Atlantic City to address a statewide gathering about the work of his aunt Eunice Kennedy on the Special Olympics, when Petitgout, a graduate of Pennsylvania State University, stood in place for her father, a retired special education teacher.
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Kennedy announced last year he would not run for a ninth term in Congress, a decision he made a few months after his father died. He told the Associated Press he is focusing on building his life with his fiancé and her daughter Harper whom he makes a point to be home to by 7pm every night to read bedtime stories.

"I want to make a difference in a different form in life," he added. "For me, this is a whole new journey."

In June, he was sentenced to one-year probation and a fine of $350 after pleading guilty to a charge of driving under the influence of prescription drugs.

He is currently working on an intimate memoir called Coming Clean which will be published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt.

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