She is maybe 25 years younger here than I am in in my avatar, but can you see a similarity?
Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis, who died in 1994 at the age of 64, was 13 years older than I am.
When I was in my 20s-40s and she was in her 30s-50s, and I'd meet someone for the first time, they'd often comment how much I looked like her, and I would be immensely flattered. Later, when she stayed slim as a reed and I went in the other direction and changed my hair, I heard it less often.
I once even stood next to her in Hyannisport, waiting for a car in the rain after a performance by the singer Peggy Lee. She was with John Glenn and Ethel Kennedy and her children, nieces and nephews. She was in her early 40s then, married to Onassis who wasn't there. She was elegant and reserved, and seemed rather dreamy. I longed to speak to her but didn't have the nerve.
Even today, when most people don't remember her except for an occasional photo, I still sometimes hear that I look like her. And it makes me happy and sad at the same time for all that has passed.
Here she is about 35, and in the following photo I'm about 30 years older than that, but is there still some similarity, besides the pose?
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And it makes me happy to remember a time when she was young, before the pain. When both of us were young and hopeful, and in my case at least, idealistic.
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The first time I saw your avatar I thought how much you looked like her.
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Thanks so much for joining in the fun today!
I mean it in the modern sense, of course.
It can be tough to have a glamorous sibling, but hey, you're still here, Lea, and Jackie, sadly, is not.
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