There’s a story I heard as a child: Jacqueline’s beauty was so legendary that when she visited Hong Kong for the first time in the sixties, her arrival attracted a throng of spectators, as if she were Elizabeth Taylor. All the men were clamoring to propose to her, and fights broke out at the terminal.
True story. There's a generation of men all over the world that I've seen become misty-eyed at the mention of the woman who inspired the character of Jacqueline Ling. I didn't meet the real "Jacqueline" until after hearing about her legendary beauty for many years, and one day, I finally got my chance. I was traveling with a relative in a foreign country where Jacqueline spent part of the year, and we had been invited to lunch. "Is she really that beautiful?" I asked my relative. "You'll see," my relative replied. Of course Jacqueline was late and kept us waiting. She was at this point in her mid fifties, and still, the room went silent the moment she entered. She was just that beautiful, and just that glamorous in an old fashioned movie star kind of way, that every head turned as she walked through the restaurant.
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