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My Man Crush on JFK, Jr.

On the tenth anniversary of John F. Kennedy Jr.’s death, Mark Katz finally admits he was his mother’s living John-John doll and recalls the day the two finally met.

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I don’t remember much about that terrible day in November, as I was just a fetus at the time, but here’s what I’ve been told: By the time the third shot was fired from the book depository behind the grassy knoll, the phone rang in my parents’ Brooklyn apartment.

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