Left unsaid was Jackie’s other personal triumph: she never thought twice now about grabbing a pair of big bold sunglasses from the basket near her door, belting her black leather trench, swinging her namesake Gucci bag over her shoulder, and heading out of 1040 Fifth Avenue, off to work. Right across the street, in the Metropolitan Museum of Art, was the ancient Egyptian Temple of Dendur, which Jackie had officially received as a gift to the United States back in 1965. Another time, another life. Then Jackie would look south, turn left, and disappear into the crowd, just another New York woman
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