Jackie Kennedy once said, “Even though people may be well known, they hold in their hearts the emotions of a simple person for the moments that are the most important of those we know on earth: birth, marriage, and death.” The plane took off at 8:38 p.m. Sunset on July 16, 1999, was 8:26 p.m. Dusk was at 8:58. Carolyn, John, and Lauren had twenty minutes of crepuscular blue and then darkness.
