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STARTER CALL – @pearlsbefit

Cecelia has been to the White House before, more than once. But that was different; press pass in hand, she was her own woman; Cecelia Holmes, Vanity Fair. Tonight she didn’t even arrive as herself. She stroked over the embossed letters on her name card, Cecelia St James. Her first dinner at the White House. Tonight she wasn’t a journalist, or an editor, or a model, tonight she was a wife. It was just as hard a job. Some people thought money equaled power, and she and her husband has plenty of that, but it was’t true. Power equaled power, and that’s what a friendship with the president gave them. Or it would, when they had it. 

She raised her head and adorned her smile just in time for the First Lady to reach her. “Mrs Kennedy,” she began, offering a hand. “It is so lovely to see you again, and looking so well. Your table is gorgeous.” 

❝   IT’S  A  PLEASURE,   AS  ALWAYS,   ms.  holmes.   ❞      gently  gripping  the  editor’s  hand  within  her  own,   jackie  feels  too  pleased  to  greet  the  woman  as  she  would  anywhere  else.      to  have  a  fellow  writer,   one  who  also  know  the  tug  this  life  often  places  upon  them,    is  a  singular  pleasure.      her  eyes  cast  over  the  artfully  set  table,   littered  in  flowers  and  priceless  china,  red  painted  lips  turning  up  into  a  smile.      ❝    thank  you,   i  wish  i  could  say  they  were  entirely  my  idea  but  my  chief  of  staff  has  a  far  better  eye  than  i.   ❞      dinners  could  be  utterly  fascinating  or  an  utter  bore,   and  she  strives  to  keep  it  the  former.

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                and one day, when you’re tired of plodding forward, you’ll whisper :                    ❝    IT WASN’T SUPPOSED TO TURN OUT LIKE THIS.    ❞

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France, early/mid ‘70s

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Caroline rides the recently installed merry-go-round on the lawn of the Kennedy Hyannis Port compound, summer 1960.

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Jacqueline in her husband’s office, in the old Senate building.

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A pregnant Jackie joins her husband on the campaign trail.

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Election Day.

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Jackie and Caroline participate in a horse riding competition. 1963.

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Jackie and Lee.

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Jackie Kennedy during a tour in Vienna, 1961

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After a light snowfall, First Lady Jacqueline Kennedy treats John Jr. to a sled ride on the White House lawn. 1962.

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Senator Kennedy’s young wife, Jackie, makes an appearance at a Washington function. Married to JFK in 1953, her movie star looks and extraordinary charm were a huge political asset.

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“I believe that the characters we read on page end up being more real than the men who stand beside us.”

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via @extramadness

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                                                           Now,  she  is  alone.

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