![]() ![]() “THOSE FAMOUS, POWERFUL MEN-DID THEY REALLY LOVE HER? AND DID THEY TAKE CARE OF HER? IF SHE WAS EVER WITH THE KENNEDYS, THEY COULDN’T HAVE LOVED HER-THEY WERE JUST USING HER, THEY WERE JUST BEING CARELESS AND TREATING THEMSELVES TO A THRILL. ![]() I could hear Hester playing her guitar in the background, as if she were trying to improvise a folk song from everything she said. ![]() SHE WAS JUST LIKE OUR WHOLE COUNTRY,” he repeated he was on a roll. SHE WAS NEVER QUITE HAPPY, SHE WAS ALWAYS A LITTLE OVERWEIGHT. SHE WAS FUNNY AND SEXY-AND SHE WAS VULNERABLE, TOO. LOOK AT HOW GOOD THEY SEEM! LOOK AT HOW DESIRABLE SHE WAS! THAT’S WHAT SHE WAS: SHE WAS DESIRABLE. LOOK AT THE MEN IN HER LIFE-JOE DIMAGGIO, ARTHUR MILLER, MAYBE THE KENNEDYS. AND SHE WAS LOOKING FOR SOMETHING-I THINK SHE WANTED TO BE GOOD. “SHE WAS JUST LIKE OUR WHOLE COUNTRY-NOT QUITE YOUNG ANYMORE, NOT BUT OLD EITHER A LITTLE BREATHLESS, VERY BEAUTIFUL, MAYBE A LITTLE STUPID, MAYBE A LOT SMARTER THAN SHE SEEMED. “IT HAS TO DO WITH ALL OF US,” said Owen Meany, when I called him that night. ![]()
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