Keanu Reeves: 'I Want to Get Married'
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Tuesday Jun 06, 2006 10:50am EST
By Stephen M. Silverman
Keanu Reeves
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Keanu Reeves, a self-described "vagabond," is ready to settle down,
he says – and that includes having a family.

"I'm trying not to be alone so much," the actor, 41, who costars
with Sandra Bullock in this summer's The Lake House, tells Parade
magazine in its June 11 issue. "And man, it's a struggle. I want to
get married. I want to have kids. That's at the top of the mountain.
I've got to climb the mountain first. I'll do it. Just give me some
time."

In the interview, Reeves talks about his father, who abandoned the
family when Reeves was a toddler, and his much-married mother, who
moved the family numerous times – a lifestyle Reeves adopted
himself.

"I've had a vagabond life," he says. "There is a bit of the gypsy in
me, and living that way seemed to make sense. I couldn't settle
down. I liked going to new places – renting apartments, staying in
hotels. Then I turned 40. That birthday is hard, perhaps because you
know you're grown-up. So now it's a makeover for me. I have bought
my first house. I wanted a home."

Reeves has faced a number of tragedies in his life. His best friend,
River Phoenix, died of a drug overdose in 1993 at the age of 23, and
Reeves's sister, Kim, 39, is battling leukemia.

He also talks about his late girlfriend Jennifer Syme, whom he met
in 1998 and who later gave birth to their stillborn baby daughter.
Reeves and Syme remained best friends until April 2001, when Syme
died in a car crash.

"Damn it! It's not fair! It's absurd," Reeves tells the
magazine. "Grief changes shape, but it never ends. People have a
misconception that you can deal with it and say, 'It's gone, and I'm
better.' They're wrong. When the people you love are gone, you're
alone."

He goes on to say, "I miss being a part of their lives and them
being a part of mine. I wonder what the present would be like if
they were here – what we might have done together. I miss all the
great things that will never be."