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Now, I think that I should have known that he was magic all along. I did know it — but I should have guessed that it would be too much to ask to grow old with and see our children grow up together. So now, he is a legend when he would have preferred to be a man.
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Quoted from article written by Jacqueline Kennedy for Look Magazine (17 November 1964) JFK memorial issue.

 

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