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Letters from Jackie Kennedy to a priest to be auctioned (Original Post) superstring1 May 2014 OP
Wow, some of these letters seem to show that she already knows how her married life is going a kennedy May 2014 #1

a kennedy

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1. Wow, some of these letters seem to show that she already knows how her married life is going
Tue May 13, 2014, 07:08 PM
May 2014

to be sad really, as in this reference.... "He's like my father in a way -- loves the chase and is bored with the conquest -- and once married needs proof he's still attractive, so flirts with other women and resents you. I saw how that nearly killed Mummy," she wrote. Then this one.... "Maybe I'm just dazzled and picture myself in a glittering world of crowned heads and Men of Destiny -- and not just a sad little housewife. ... That world can be very glamorous from the outside -- but if you're in it -- and you're lonely -- it could be a Hell."

I loved Jackie, and was consumed with such grief during those days of Jack's funeral. Such a terrible time we lived through.....

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