<P> When she was 22, Lucy was set up on a blind date by her friend Marion Strong . Her blind date turned out to be a Cuban conga drummer, Ricky Ricardo . The two fell in love and eventually got married at the Byram River Beagle Club in Connecticut . An alternate scenario given to guest star Hedda Hopper in the Lucy - Desi Comedy Hour episode "Lucy Takes a Cruise to Havana," with Lucy and friend Susie McNamara (Ann Sothern, reprising her role from Private Secretary), is that Lucy met Ricky while vacationing in Cuba in 1940 . </P> <P> In the early 1940s, Lucy and Ricky moved into an old reconverted brownstone apartment at 623 East 68th Street in New York City (references made during the series date the move to 1940 or 1943). The apartment rented for $105 per month . Their landlords (soon to be best friends) were Fred and Ethel Mertz . </P> <P> Lucy and Ethel quickly became best friends, even though Ethel was older than Lucy . Upon moving to the city, Ricky ended up getting a job headlining the Club Tropicana where they were held over indefinitely . To Lucy, Ricky's career and days seemed so much more exciting than her days of cooking and cleaning . She desperately wanted to be a star and constantly tried to get into Ricky's act . Ricky wanted his wife to stay home and complete her homemaking duties . However, in spite of Ricky's reluctance and usual refusal to give her a part, Lucy usually found a way into the show . </P> <P> In 1952, after going to the doctor complaining of feeling "dauncey" (a word her grandmother made up; Lucy's definition of feeling "dauncey" is when you're not really sick but just feel lousy) and gaining weight, she learns that she is pregnant . It is actually Ethel who first suggests to Lucy she may be expecting, even before Lucy heads out to the doctor . Lucy is very excited to tell her husband the exciting news . The Mertzes learn the news first and are sworn to secrecy . When she was younger, Lucy had envisioned how she would tell her husband they were going to have a baby . She decides to tell Ricky when he comes home for lunch that afternoon . However, with repeated interruptions from the telephone and the Mertzes, she is unable . She tries to tell him down at his club during rehearsals, but is uncomfortable telling him such a personal thing in front of his band, so she runs out crying . Finally, that evening, while Ricky is performing, Lucy pens a note and passes it to the maître d'hotel . He gives the note to Ricky . Ricky reads the note, which alludes to a wife's needing to tell her husband they were having a baby, during one of his songs . Ricky, unaware that the "husband" mentioned in the note is he, wants to bring the expectant couple up on stage to congratulate them . He goes from couple to couple trying to find them . Ricky notices Lucy in the audience, and it occurs to him that Lucy may be the one who is expecting . Lucy nods yes, and Ricky is overcome with emotion . They sing "We're Having a Baby", with Lucille Ball actually breaking down in tears during the scene, which made it one of the most genuinely touching moments in television history . </P>

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