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I know how important it is to, you know, to be my own person.

Caroline Kennedy

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Caroline Kennedy
Age: 66
Born: 1957
Born: November 27
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Caroline Bouvier Kennedy
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I have a lifelong devotion to public service.
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Poetry is really a way of sharing feelings and ideas.
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I've been a Democrat all my life.
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Sharing the holiday with other people, and feeling that you're giving of yourself, gets you past all the commercialism.
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I enjoy writing. I enjoy that kind of process.
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When you make the right decision, it doesn't really matter what anyone else thinks.
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The happiest years of my mother's life were spent in Washington, D.C. It was where she met my father, where John was born and where I spent my earliest years.
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I grew up in New York, I love New York.
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I know my mother so well, so it's hard for me to remember that people have a certain image of her, but they don't really know her personality.
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