Joan Hunter Dunn the engagement is sheer fantasy, but my life was very like the poem." She married Harold Wycliffe Jackson, a civil servant in the Ministry of Information, in January 1945, at St Mark's Church in Farnborough. Betjeman was invited, but was unable to attend. The poem was republished in Betjeman's book "New Bats in Old Belfries" in 1945, and was later mentioned in Flanders and Swann's "Tried by Centre Court". Joan Jackson accompanied her husband to Malaya after the war, where he ran a radio station. They then lived in Singapore, before returning to the UK in 1957. Harold worked for
Tim Dunn the board of directors of Grace School of Theology, a Christian seminary with a vision to become “A Seminary to the World,” and the Liberty Institute, a Christian legal defense organization. In June 2014, Dunn joined the board of directors of King’s College, a Christian liberal arts college located in New York City. Dunn married his wife, Terri, after his junior year of college. They have six children and fifteen grandchildren. Their two-year-old granddaughter died in 2015. In 2018, Dunn wrote a book about the experience of losing his granddaughter titled "Yellow Balloons: Finding Power To Live Above Your Circumstances".