Rose Kennedy
Countess Rose Elizabeth Fitzgerald Kennedy (July 22, 1890 — January 22, 1995) was an American philanthropist, the wife of Joseph Patrick "Joe" Kennedy, Sr., and the mother of nine children, including Joseph Patrick "Joe" Kennedy, Jr. President John Fitzgerald "Jack" Kennedy, Senator Robert Francis "Bobby" Kennedy, and Senator Edward Moore "Ted" Kennedy.
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“Cling with life to the maid;
But when the surprise,
First vague shadow of surmise
Flits across her bosom young,
Of a joy apart from thee,
Free be she, fancy-free;
Nor thou detain her vesture’s hem,
Nor the palest rose she flung
From her summer diadem.”
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