Once Upon a Secret tells the story of an intern in Washington, D.C. that engages in a secret affair with the President of the United States for about 18 months. No, it's not that President. Mimi Alford went to Washington to be a summer intern in 1962. She met President Kennedy four days later, and their affair began right after that. In November, 1963, she was getting ready to end it because she was getting married, and he was getting ready to end it because he was moving on. It ended because he was assassinated. They were scheduled to meet after he came back from Dallas; sadly, he returned in a coffin.
This is an almost clinical report of how they met and how the affair was arranged. She doesn't give up much in emotion until she hears of the shooting in Dallas. Only then did I feel any empathy for her. She was "outed" as an affair in 2003, but she waited until now to tell her story.
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