Patrick Kennedy Is Engaged
PROVIDENCE, R.I. (AP) - Patrick Kennedy, son of the late Sen. Edward Kennedy, is engaged to be married.
Former aide Sean Richardson said Monday that the 43-year-old bachelor is engaged to sixth-grade schoolteacher Amy Petitgout. No wedding date has been set.
Kennedy told The Associated Press last month that he was living in New Jersey with his girlfriend. In a written statement, he recalled the title of his father's book, "True Compass." He said Amy is his own compass.
She has a 3-year-old daughter named Harper from a previous marriage. She says in a statement that Kennedy loves her daughter as his own. Kennedy decided last year not to run for a ninth term representing Rhode Island in Congress.
His father died in 2009 after many years representing Massachusetts in the Senate.
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