Last year old love letters, written by a teenage Jacqueline Bouvier, were found. They were addressed to her then boyfriend, Bev (Richard Beverley Corbin Jr.) The letters give a rather charming glimpse at the everyday life of the schoolgirl. At the time, young Jackie was in boarding school at Miss Porter’s in Farmington, Connecticut – and the slightly older Bev, was a student at Harvard. The young couple had met one summer in Newport – where both families summered.
Addressing her letters with “Bev Darling”, Jackie often complained about her humdrum existence in the boondocks of Connecticut – saying things like “if school days are the happiest days of your life, I’m hanging myself with my skip-rope tonight,” and “some man is beating his wife in the street which is the only interesting thing that’s happened all day.”
Describing a vacation to New York, she told Bev that she was going to “make the hours you stay up till look like the curfew for a two-year-old.” In other letters, it seemed like she was confused about their relationship, saying things like “I do think I’m in love with you when I’m with you, but it’s awfully hard for me to stay in love with someone when I only see them every three months and when the only contact I have with them is through letters.” Later (in 1947) she wrote ”I’ve always thought of being in love as being willing to do anything for the other person – starve to buy them bread, live in Siberia with them – and that every minute away would be hell. So looking at it that way, I guess I’m not in love with you.”
Over the next several years the couple was on-again, off-again. In her final, undated letter, Jackie announced her engagement to a young stockbroker, John Husted. Of course that engagement was later called off, and in 1953 she married the young Senator from Massachusetts, John Kennedy.
Via Jackie & Audrey
♥ Senator and Mrs. Kennedy look towards a presidential future ♥
Given that we now know the sad and tragic end to the Kennedy presidency, their hopeful smiles are so bittersweet.
A teacher in New York was teaching her class about bullying and gave them the following exercise to perform. She had the children take a piece of paper and told them to crumple it up, stomp on it and really mess it up but do not rip it. Then she had them unfold the paper, smooth it out and look at how scarred and dirty is was. She then told them to tell it they’re sorry. Now even though they said …they were sorry and tried to fix the paper, she pointed out all the scars they left behind. And that those scars will never go away no matter how hard they tried to fix it. That is what happens when a child bully’s another child, they may say they’re sorry but the scars are there forever. The looks on the faces of the children in the classroom told her the message hit home. Pass it on.
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Hi my name is Joy and Modern American History is my favorite subject. Eunice Kennedy Shriver is one of the people who are my heroes. The Kennedy family is one of interest subjects and I plan to one day work for the White House or the U.S. Senate.*All pictures are subject to copyright under their respective owner(s)
