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My "rite of passage" from age 12 to nearly seventyBoasts inclusion of a collection labeled "Kennedy"…Magazines: LIFE, LOOK, NEWSWEEK, TIME, SATURDAY EVENING POST…My mammoth old trunk filled with ghost after valorous ghost!Bookshelves lined with biographies ofStarting with Honey Fitz -- a patriotic entourage!Dawning upon me a young handsome Senator named "Jack";His mother Rose and father Joe; siblings who had his back!Touch football, PT 109, and just "England Slept"--Memories and souvenirs lovingly browsed through and kept!Moveable feast travelling from kid's bedroom to atticsThen apartments and basements and dens while Father Time ticks…Hints of mildew. Yellowing. Frayed edges, yet quite intact --Throughout the years, amassing updates I've researched and tracked.A Commander-in-Chief, brilliant, brave, a "real time" hero --Vibrant, credible, rugged Irish roots, calm and mellow.By his side stood his equal…independent Jacqueline --Role model like no other --to as well as seen.("Jacqueline Kennedy: The White House Years", I'd view one day,Revived thoughts of snooping through my sister's closet -- at play!Photographs, gowns, tweed jackets, jodhpurs, weathered riding boots,Hand-written correspondence, sunglasses, pearls with smart suits!)Studied high school French and bouffanted my thick, brown tresses,Bought a pill box hat or two and sleeveless A-line dresses,Played a lead part in our senior play in mid-November,Welcomed an infant niece -- Kelly Diane -- I remember.News anchor Walter Cronkite informed our stunned Civics classThis exceptional era into history must pass.A tiny child bravely saluting. Lone riderless steed."Ask what you can do for your country…" The re-planted seed.Helen Cochrane: "I love this chapter and I feel like I have read it before....I have just read Susie's chapter on Roy and Edna's Sept 18 wedding. I was in the cycle of every seven years and I was seven and later Shirley, Sarah and Susie were seven years apart. I feel I have read this chapter before and it is certainly timely with all the JFK and Jacqueline's articles appearing. I'm grateful to you for remembering me--Roy and Edna were so special to me all my life."Barb Nicholson: "I remember this day oh so well. I remember I couldn’t believe a president was assassinated in my lifetime. I remember thinking that was something that took place in the olden days of Abraham Lincoln and others....And now in this day and age, with murders in the homes, schools, workplaces, on the streets, in the cities and all over the country I wonder if the younger generation would even bat an eye if a leader of our country were to be assassinated in their lifetime!"Diann Trice: "Wow, that is all I can say wow. So your grandmother got a letter from Jackie……priceless memories."Carole Craft: "Susie, you have done well! I am anxious to read this book. The first book was great."Steve Bowser: "Always a good subject to reminisce."Kandy Kay Scaramuzzo: "How cool is that?"Kat Kelly-Heinzelman: "I love this tribute to JFK; he was always my hero, and so was Lincoln."Carol Baker: "The newest addition to my Kindle by friend and soul sister, Susie Sexton. As a writer, I appreciate Susie's ability to just... think out loud on paper. ♥ ... As I read the book, I realize that we have totally different writing styles. I have the ability to make people laugh, to make them cry, to bring them into the story as an active observer. What I've never been able to do, as Susie does effortlessly, is to write with the ease of an old friend over coffee, evoking memories of my own early childhood, my youth, young adulthood and ultimately, coming to terms with an aging body. Susie, you can move from topic to topic through time and weave the stories like a familiar old song. When one writes about topics of politics and social justice, as I do, it's with a constant level of angst. One day, I must try a Susie Sexton exercise of becoming a story-teller... never too late to stretch my writing chops. You inspire me to write more - and to write better. That's what I was talking about - your ability to think out loud on paper."Tari Joyce: "Dear Susie has inspired me, to even be more aware, even when I thought I was just that; she has the right way to Rally People to notice and react ...to make a difference, no matter how small, it's something in the direction of progress ...... Ms. Motivation International She Is !! <3 Susie !!!!!!!"_________________________________________Read about movies and nostalgia, animal issues and sociopolitical concerns all discussed in my book Secrets of an Old Typewriter and its new follow-up Misunderstood Gargoyles and Overrated Angels - print and ebook versions of both are available (click the title to order from publisher Open Books' website). Also available in both formats at Amazon.com , or download from iTunes Meet other like-minded souls at my facebook fan page Visit my author website at www.susieduncansexton.com Join a great group of animal advocates Squawk Back: Helping animals when others can't ... Or won't