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Diane Keaton’s children are paying tribute to their mom one year after her death.
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Dexter White, whom Keaton adopted in 1996, noted it’s “the everyday moments that remind me just how much I wish you were still here.”
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Duke Keaton, whom Keaton adopted in 2001, simply wrote, “I love you Mom ❤️ Thinking of you every day.”
The love Diane Keaton‘s children have for their mom transcends even death.
It’s been exactly one year since the Oscar winner died at the age of 79 from bacterial pneumonia. Tributes haven’t stopped pouring in from Keaton’s famous friends from across her six decades in Hollywood. But it’s theAnnie Hallstar’s two children who are keeping her memory alive.
Keaton’s daughter Dexter and son Duke testified to Keaton’s loving legacy as a mom on Sunday, with a pair of heartfelt social media posts commemorating the first anniversary of her death.
“It somehow feels like yesterday and forever ago all at once. I’m still trying to get used to a world where I can’t call you, have you there for a hug, or go on adventures with you,” Dexter wrote on Instagram.
The post contained a single black-and-white photo of mother and daughter gazing at one another with admiration in their eyes. The photo was taken on the day of Dexter’s wedding to racer Jordan White in 2021. “It’s the everyday moments that remind me just how much I wish you were still here,” she continued. “I love you and I miss you. Always.”
Duke kept it simple, writing “I love you Mom ❤️ Thinking of you every day ♾️” over a set of three photos of mother and son. The first showed Keaton embracing Duke as a boy dressed in a jack-o-lantern costume. The second showed Keaton and her children huddled close at an industry event, and the third depicted them again beaming while aboard a gondola in the Venice canals.
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Keaton adopted Dexter in 1996, and adopted Duke in 2001.
Sarah Paulson, who starred in the 1999 Garry Marshall comedy The Other Sisterwith Keaton, supported Dexter in the comments of her post, writing, “Love you sweet Dex.” She also left three red heart emojis under Duke’s post.
When Duke was 6 and Dexter was 11, Keaton opened up about her later-in-life parenthood journey in a 2007 interview. “They have no interest in what I do, which I think is very healthy. We live a relatively normal — well, sort of normal — life,” she said.
“I didn’t think that I was ever going to be prepared to be a mother,” she later told Ladies’ Home Journal (per PEOPLE). “Motherhood was not an urge I couldn’t resist. It was more like a thought I’d been thinking for a very long time. So I plunged in.”
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