Mira and Goran's first child, Marko Lav Gajic, arrived on the morning of the 15th of December 1998.

When I saw Mira at VOR in October of 1998 I couldn't help but think that I'd never seen her look more beautiful. She was the picture of a woman who was all filled up with love, and that love was spilling out on to everyone she came in contact with. Radiant does not begin to describe the way she looked when she was pregnant.

Motherhood definitely suits Mira. She shines like a beacon when she talks about her young son, and her voice goes up a full octave. She's in love. Goran is every bit the proud papa and from what I've seen of him and Marko together, a very loving and gentle father.

Marko is exceedingly cute. A very beautiful baby with lots of dark hair, and the most amazingly beautiful pale blue eyes. At six and a half months (which is when I last saw him) he's starting to lose that generic baby look and really beginning to come into his own. I thinks he's going to be a rather handsome young man. According to Mira, he travels well, which is a good thing as he's already done a lot of it in his young life (Denver, Cincinnati, Atlanta, London, England and an extended stay in New York). He seems to be an amazingly calm and self possessed little boy, not at all freaked out by the clamour and the noise and the goings on on a convention floor.

Mira has not ruled out the possibility of having other children. She's said at a couple of conventions that since she was an only child she'd like it if Marko were not. If she really wants more, I hope it happens for her - she and Goran make beautiful babies.

 

Sometime in the summer of 1997 I was told by someone who has contact with the Gajic's that she didn't think Mira and Goran were "really" married. The reasons she gave were the fact the Mira does not wear a wedding ring and that they celebrate the date that they met as their anniversary. This little tidbit of information has drifted back to me from others, who I can only assume got it from the same source as I did.

Since I have subsequently come to the conclusion that Goran and Mira are in fact legally married, I'd like to do my bit to dispel what I feel is a piece of erroneous speculation. I have never seen Mira wear a wedding ring either, but then again I have never seen her wear any sort of jewelry at all, so the lack of that one particular adornment is in my mind no sort of evidence at all. I cannot comment on the date of their meeting or if it is indeed the date that they celebrate as their anniversary as I have no independent confirmation of that. I have, however, read accounts of an alleged controversy that occurred in the media in Yugoslavia at the time of their marriage, a controversy that I think would not have happened had they simply been living together.

The most compelling piece of evidence for me as to the legality of their marriage come from Mira's own words during a talk she gave in Columbus, Ohio in July of 1998. She was asked if she was disappointed that jms had chosen not to show "John" and "Delenn's" wedding on Babylon 5 and she gave the following reply. "You know who was really disappointed? The wardrobe people. They were in tears 'cause they wanted to make me a nice dress. And it would be nice, I would have liked it, at least on TV, 'cause in life I didn't opt for a wedding like that, which I sometimes regret. It was very low key, totally low key, no dresses nothing, so I thought maybe now I can experience that, a really great dress. And they wanted to do it, but it didn't happen."