Touched by the Sun: My Friendship with Jackie

by Carly Simon

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A chance encounter at a summer party on Martha's Vineyard blossomed into an improbable but enduring friendship between Simon and Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis. An intimate, vulnerable, and insightful portrait of the bond that grew between two iconic and starkly different American women, this work is a celebration of kinship in all its many forms.… (more)

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Touched by the Sun: My Friendship with Jackie

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Touched by the Sun: My Friendship with Jackie

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2019-10

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Carly Simon

Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis

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Martha's Vineyard, Massachusetts, USA

New York, New York, USA

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One must still have chaos in oneself to be able to give birth to a dancing star.

---FRIEDRICH NIETZSCHE
( TRANSLATED BY WALTER KAUFMANN)

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To all my first girlfriends, the ones I knew from a very young age, who made the greatest impact on my life and who remain very much an integral part if it

Ellen, Jennie Lou, Jesse, Nan, Tamara

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You can't recapture people who are gone---not exactly, not entirely.

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A chance encounter at a summer party on Martha's Vineyard blossomed into an improbable but enduring friendship between Simon and Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis. An intimate, vulnerable, and insightful portrait of the bond that grew between two iconic and starkly different American women, this work is a celebration of kinship in all its many forms.

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