Hirsute said:
Exactly STRONZ tell SENOR RUBIROSA that !!
He was a total loss-he was destined to be great and would have !!
Hirsute,
I know senor rubirosa pretty well. I agree with him that even in death he remains hot as hell. I recall when I met him at the Kennedy Compound that not only was he so handsome it was nearly surreal but his calm and magnetic manner would win even the most skeptical to an instant crush! I left that day somewhat in love.
In fact for one whole summer he and his uncle Teddy would come to the one and only gay bar in Hyannis and play pool often. Speculation was immense that John Jr. was at least bisexual. However, I think it was wishful thinking.
I have a photo on my bathroom wall of him circa 1980 in his cut off shorts. There he is in all his hotness with his ringlets as he made his way to the beach. It's the "stuff" of fantasy. I was prone to tell my boyfriend often "I'd only leave you for JFK jr." (it was, I think, partly true too). We still laugh about it. Indeed when the news reached me that summer morning that he'd been lost my boyfriend had the presence of mind to come visit me on my job site and sit me down before he gave me the dreadful news.
When JFK jr. and his wife and sister-in-law went down off the Vineyard that summer I was on a job in the same town where their bodies were brought for autopsy after the lengthy search commissioned by Pres. Clinton to find the plane. The details of how they were found and their condition I was, unfortunately, made privy to. It's never been fully disclosed .. nor should it be.
John was foolhearty often in his decisions. It was local lore. He had a naivité which was endearing and ultimately dangerous all at once. In the end it cost him and his two companions that evening their lives.
His mother was equally lovely and I was fortunate enough to know her a little. When I was a waiter during college at the restaurant at the Hyannis airport I was sent out to "give Mrs. Onassis some coffee and pastries". Immediately she asked me to sit down and inquired about me and my interests. I was at the Compound subsequently two times after that chance meeting and much as the Kennedys have fallen out of favor and are maligned these days I found them to be (this in the face of my Yankee background) a pretty nifty lot. Caroline and John and Jackie took the proverbial "cake" though.
Caroline still is a testament to her mother's skill and resolve at the raising of those two children.