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Can anyone understand how it is to have lived in the White House and then, suddenly, to be living alone as the President's widow?

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Jackie Kennedy
Age: 64 †
Born: 1929
Born: July 28
Died: 1994
Died: May 19
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Town of Southampton
Jacqueline Kennedy
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