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Boy wonder | page 1, 2
He gave it what looked like his best effort, and while George never
entirely took
off the way he'd hoped, it actually attempted to do something intelligent
and provocative.
And we had to admire its founder for trying, with all eyes on him and many
enviously anxious for him to fail, to do something unique with his life. He settled down and married Carolyn Bessette, a woman as lovely and
graceful as himself.
If the sound of hearts breaking could be heard all across the country that
late summer day he emerged from a small Southern church with his slim, chic
bride, there was at least some consolation in knowing he'd picked someone
so flawlessly suitable. She made him shine even brighter -- the two of
them, black clad, young and elegant, seemed the American ideal. They
weren't how we are, in our collective love of all things big and loud and
showy, but how we'd like to be -- subtle, discreet, confident enough to be
quiet about ourselves. Beauty is a genetic luck of the draw, but there was no way a young man with
those parents wasn't going to come out a winner. And sure, like Elaine, we
may have
let that John-John butt fuel our fantasies. But he couldn't have held our
hearts as well as our libidos if there were nothing more to him. As we grew
up and older with him, we saw him turn into our Prince Charming -- the sort
of man we could imagine would be nice to our mothers and let us cry on his
shoulder. His name and good looks took him far, but what made him
extraordinary was that in a world of crotch-grabbing rock stars, adulterous
presidents and petulant movie actors, he seemed to be that rarest and
most prized of creatures -- a true gentleman.
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