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Maeve

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25. Actually, my first political memory was his election

Sun Apr 9, 2017, 09:59 PM

Apr 2017

We had a pretend vote in kindergarten--I was 5. Since I was the first in line, I got to count the votes--Kennedy won (my parents, I'm sure, were Nixon voters, but...hey, I got to be first in line!). His assassination was a shock--and we got sent home early from school, so it had to be important.

I didn't really give much of a damn about politics until Bobby was killed. I carried his picture in my wallet for years afterwards...

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