“The murders of my uncles were never really humanized for me. John and Robert Kennedy were public figures and their murders were public events... The mythic proportions [of the murders] somehow dehumanized the actual events and prevented any real human association. We had no tools for dealing with any of it, and those who might have provided some were far too devastated themselves to be much help. The only way to survive was
to escape” (p. 108).