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Dance + Is it weird that I've daydreamed about our wedding? For the soft blurbs 🥹 with Steve Harrington

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"Heaven" ~ S. Harrington

Summary: When Y/N and Steve attend Joyce and Hopper's wedding together, it gets the two of them thinking about their own wedding—something comparable to heaven.

Pairing: Steve Harrington x Fem!Byers!Reader

Word Count: 882

Content Warning: light mentions of alcohol and food consumption, light mentions of Vecna, light mentions of the Mind Flayer, lmk if i missed anything!

Genre: tooth-rotting Fluffy Fluff

Extra Notes: tears were absolutely shed, i hope you guys enjoy

Based On the Prompts: "dance — our muses slow dance together" and "Is it weird that I've daydreamed about our wedding?"

Originally Written: 09/22/2022

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Steve's large hands were settled delicately on my waist, the two of us swinging back and forth as Heaven by Bryan Adams played over the speakers.

"I never thought I'd see Mom happy again after what happened to Bob," I said, just loud enough for Steve to hear.

Steve looked over his shoulder, watching Mom and Hopper as they themselves swayed happily to the music. I giggled as I watched along with him, letting out a snicker when Hopper lightly stepped on the end of Mom's dress.

"I love seeing them together," he commented. "Lets me know that true love does still exist."

My eyebrows furrowed as I once again made eye contact with him. "Whatcha mean?"

"Well, up until I met you of course, I didn't exactly have the best example of love in my life," he explained. "It's nice to see them making each other happy, which is no small feat for Joyce. I don't think I've ever seen Hopper smile before today."

I threw my head back, letting out an amused laugh. "To be fair, I've never seen Mom laugh the way she laughs around Hopper. You'd think they were the teenagers the way they act around each other."

Steve let out a light huff, a smile tugging at his lips. His right hand departed from my hip, grasping my left one. His fingers tangled lightly with mine, his thumb rubbing the back of my hand.

I rested my head lightly against his chest, taking in the scent of his new cologne. I felt a smile appear on my face as I recalled the memory of helping him pick out the new scent.

"Alright, this is the Ralph Lauren one," he told me, holding the bottle up to my nose.

I giggled lightly at his behavior. "You act like you're the one getting married," I snickered, taking in a whiff of the cologne.

"Look, I've never been to a wedding," he admitted, running a hand through his already disheveled hair. "I don't think my Old Spice is gonna cut it though."

I let out a light huff, moving my hand up to his hair. "It's just Mom and Hopper. It's not like we're going to Madonna and Sean Penn's wedding."

"But it's my first wedding. And it's my first wedding with you," he pouted, taking my hands in his.

"First?" I asked, raising an eyebrow.

He let go of one hand, moving a strand of hair from my face. "First of many, I hope."

"Baby, you're all that I want, when you're lying here in my arms," Steve sang softly, his lips lingering close to my ear.

I swiveled my head to look up at him, taking in the softness of those brown eyes I loved so much. "I'm finding it hard to believe, we're in heaven," I sang back, a smile making its way to my lips as I finished the lyric.

"I'm not," he said, "I'd say this is exactly what I'd imagine heaven is like."

My hands found their way to his chest as I leaned up, my lips landing on his for a long and tender kiss. I took in the taste of the champagne and wedding cake he'd been consuming a few minutes earlier, a sweetness I hadn't expected but welcomed nonetheless.

"Is it weird that I've daydreamed about our wedding?" he asked as our mouths parted. "Thought about what I'd say in my vows, what you'd look like in a white dress, that kind of stuff."

My lips turned upward as I gave him another peck. "I think about it a lot too," I admitted.

"You wanna marry me?" he questioned, his eyebrows furrowing together.

I let out a light giggle, my hand moving to rest on his cheek. "Of course I wanna marry you. I've thought about it pretty much every day since you gave me that dandelion in the second grade."

He chuckled deeply, pressing a soft kiss on my forehead. "Why do you think I gave you the dandelion in the first place?"

A strong laugh made its way from my chest as I reminisced. "Jonathan was furious," I told him, "Not because his big sister had a 'boyfriend' but because he'd tried the same thing with Denise Whitley a week earlier and she looked at him like he was certifiably insane."

His hands wandered back down to my waist, pulling me ever so close. "Jonathan was always jealous of my good looks," he smirked, a laugh threatening to roll off his tongue.

"No, I really wasn't," Jonathan commented as he and Nancy danced past us, twirling her straight to the middle of the dance floor.

I rested my head against his chest again, a content sigh tumbling through my lips. We stayed like that for a while—happy and content. After everything that happened, what with Vecna and the Mind Flayer and all, it finally felt as though all was as it should've been.

"The thought of marrying you someday, Y/N Byers, sounds like heaven to me," Steve said, looking down at me with loving eyes.

I leaned up once more, my lips colliding with his for one, two, three feathery kisses. "Well, Steve Harrington," I said as I broke away, "It kinda sounds like heaven to me too."

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Favorite Son

It was madness, even by Bloomingdale’s standards. The customers that late-November lunchtime were possessed by an urgency that transcended mere pre-Christmas shopping lust. Suddenly, TV lights came on and cameras started snapping like piranhas as the day’s hottest item, John Fitzgerald Kennedy Jr., the son of America’s thirty-fifth president, stepped onto a platform. Women screamed.

“It was mass hysteria,” one store worker says. “Poor man. I don’t think he had any idea.” Kennedy looked amazed and none too happy. “Oh, dear,” he said as he joined cousins Ted Kennedy Jr. and Willie Smith, Willie’s mother, Jean Kennedy Smith, and Lauren Bacall on the store’s loge level.

Very Special Arts, a Kennedy charity, was behind this sale of boxed Christmas ornaments produced by the retarded in Third World countries. But the TV crews and the screaming women and the pushing paparazzi didn’t care about that. They didn’t care about Betty Bacall, either, or the other Kennedy cousins — all associate trustees of the Joseph P. Kennedy Foundation who had funded the program. Says the Bloomingdale’s employee, “They wanted John.”

Kennedy took the microphone. “I hope you’ll all buy a few boxes,” he said. “I’m here to sell boxes, and that’s what I want to get to do.” Of course, by doing that-or, more precisely, by autographing boxes for a few minutes-he got the ornaments mentioned on seven local news shows and Entertainment Tonight. Jill Rapaport, a perky Channel 2 News reporter, even got a brief interview. “It’s really the boxes they should be coming for, not us,” Kennedy told her. Then he got boxed in himself as Rapaport asked how it felt to be one of the world’s most eligible bachelors. “C’mon,” Kennedy pleaded, eyes and hands turning upward. “1 dunno.” He glanced away from the microphone hopelessly. Finally, visibly embarrassed, he said, “It feels okay.” Cut to Rapaport happy-talking in the studio later. “Kinda cute, huh?” she said to the camera.

Although Bloomingdale’s sold almost $50,000 worth of ornaments that day, John Kennedy, 28, considered the appearance disappointing. “We didn’t want it to turn out the way it did,” says Kathy Walther, a Very Special Arts executive. “It was very obnoxious from the second he walked in. John hoped it would be more substantive.”

Unfortunately, substance isn’t ‘the first thing that comes to mind when most people think about John F. Kennedy Jr. First, of course, comes the awful, indelible memory of the little boy in a blue coat and short pants, saluting his father’s bronze coffin.

That image alternates with others not so sober: Kennedy pumped-up and shirtless as People magazine’s “Sexiest Man Alive.” Kennedy linked in the columns with an enviable parade-Brooke Shields, Madonna, Daryl Hannah, Molly Ringwald, Princess Stephanie of Monaco.

Those images melded at his political coming-out party, last summer’s Democratic Convention-where John F. Kennedy Jr., tabloid celebrity, was transformed into the living embodiment of a nation’s not-quite-impossible dream: that it will wake up one morning with another JFK in the White House. Uncle Ted Kennedy passed the torch himself when he had John introduce him to the delegates, and though the nephew’s speech didn’t rattle the rafters, there was a surge of emotion in the hall. This was the first time John had ever acted the part of “a Kennedy” on a national stage. And the moment suggested that he could become the ultimate postmodern politician-a blank canvas for fantasies of national destiny.

* * *

The boy in the blue coat is grown up now, and, whether he likes it or not, people still have their eyes on him. He doesn’t like it at all, and friends insist that his life is a quest for anonymity and normality. He may never find privacy (“He’s never known life any different,” says a friend), but he’s won the battle to be normal. Aggressively normal. “Disgustingly normal,” says a friend.

He is also understandably reluctant to give anything away, having already given so much. Kennedy “is trying to have an open life,” says Faith Stevelman, who met him on their second day of law school, in 1986. “He sure turned out to be completely different than I expected. The press makes him out to be a narcissistic celebrity brat, but he’s not. People want to see him that way, because of his father, because of his name, because he’s handsome, but-praise to him-he has a life that’s much more real than that. He likes being in the world.”

He doesn’t like publicity, though. “It curtails his freedom,” Stevelman says.

So, aside from lending his name to good causes, he’s done nothing to attract attention to himself. He’s given only one print interview in his life, to the New York Times, and it wasn’t particularly revealing. Not speaking to reporters “has always been a habit,” says his aunt Lee Radziwill. “We’re not going to start now.”

One former family intimate describes the Kennedy attitude as “a conspiracy of silence, mandated from above. But when they want to get the message out, they do.” John Kennedy declined to be interviewed for this story. But there’s a message his friends want to get out, so many of them cooperated, as did former coworkers and bosses and a few Kennedy-family members.

They are setting the stage for what a Kennedy Foundation executive describes as “John emerging into the public sphere.” After having worked for New York City, a nonprofit developer, the Reagan Justice Department, and apolitically connected Los Angeles law firm, the man who is perhaps the most famous presidential child of the century is about to become one of about 400 assistant district attorneys in the office of Manhattan prosecutor Robert Morgenthau.

Like a favored candidate’s spin doctors before a big debate, Kennedy’s friends are trying to lower expectations. “The most extraordinary thing about him is that he’s extraordinarily ordinary,” says one.

Public appearances to the contrary, friends seem convinced, and want to convince others, that John Fitzgerald Kennedy Jr. — JFK II — doesn’t really exist. “He wants to be perceived as his own man,” says Peter Allen, a friend since grade school. Says Stevelman heatedly, “He’s not John F. Kennedy Jr. He is himself. It’s `Hi, I’m John.’ ” Just John.

John doesn’t share the problems of some of the other Kennedy cousins of his generation. “Monsters,” the former family friend calls them. A friend of John’s agrees: “They might as well have the name emblazoned on their sleeves.” John does share many traits with his father, though-and people want to believe he shares even more. Just like his father, he is bound up with his immediate family. “All of our lives, there’s just been the three of us — Mommy, Caroline, and I,” John said at his sister’s wedding. Besides them, he’s got a coterie of intensely loyal friends-some of whom go back through prep school just like his father’s. At Brown University, where John earned a bachelor’s degree in history in 1983, his friends literally surrounded him, shielding him from the 14,500 spectators during their mile-long graduation processional. John’s also got his father’s charisma. “Even if he wasn’t John Kennedy,” says his cousin Cecil Auchincloss, “people would notice him at a party. Even as a kid.” Though he seems to disdain Kennedy competitiveness (when he was a child, the cousins called him “Mama’s Boy”), John shares his father’s love of athletics. An active outdoorsman, he skis; rafts, snorkels, hikes, and goes camping. “He’s an overenergetic, can’t-sit-still type,” a friend reports.

Also like his father (and like his mother’s father, Black Jack Bouvier, who had an affair on his honeymoon), John’s got serious sex appeal. “The apple doesn’t fall far from the tree,” says a young woman who knows him. “Girls come and go.”

In fact, only with women does John act as if he wanted to be noticed. “It’s no wonder rumors start,” says one woman he’s flirted with. Adds another who encountered him on the street, “He was begging for attention.”

He doesn’t always have to beg. Madonna, this generation’s self-styled Marilyn Monroe, set her cap for John. “He and Madonna were good friends,” says a fast-crowd friend of the Kennedy cousins. “She was obviously the aggressor.”

Friends of John’s also believe that their contacts were all initiated by Madonna. “I think they met when [John's cousin] Bobby Shriver made his Special Olympics album,” says one pal. “Then Madonna invited John to her concert at Madison Square Garden. She also works out with the same trainer. I don’t think that’s chance.” Though some insist that John has had “dates” with Madonna between rounds in her marital bout with Sean Penn, a close friend of the singer’s sighed when I asked her if the duo’s rumored relationship was real. “If only,” she said.

Many of John’s supposed assignations turn out to be fictions. Another Kennedy “date,” identified in some papers as Molly Ringwald, was actually John’s steady girlfriend of four years, actress Christina Haag. “A good thing,” a friend jokes. “Christina would have believed it.”

Haag, the daughter of a retired businessman, grew up in Manhattan. She is not the blue blood she’s sometimes made out to be; she’s an actress struggling to make ends meet. A graduate of Juilliard, she has played Ophelia at Center Stage in Baltimore, acted in A Matter of Degrees, an independent film about college students, and played the public-relations woman for a hospital in The Littlest Victim, an upcoming TV movie about a doctor who treats children with AIDS. Between jobs, she has checked coats at Elio’s and worked as an assistant to Seventh Avenue designer Christine Thomson.

Luckily, both John and Christina know Daryl Hannah and knew it wasn’t true when, late last year, Suzy said he’d proposed to the star. Says a Kennedy friend, “They’ve all known each other for years.” A gossip item once appeared saying that Hannah, the daughter of a Chicago real-estate magnate, had followed college-age John down a beach on St. Martin. “They were twelve at the time,” says the friend, “and I bet he followed her. If she’d been following him, he would have stopped.”

Then there are the models. Kennedy has met some through Richard Wiese, a Phi Psi fraternity brother at Brown who is now a Ford model. Audra Avizienis, a Click face, told People she had dated John. Now she claims the magazine misquoted her. People’s reporter denies it. So has she gone out with him? “That’s beside the point,” Avizienis snaps.

An older friend of the family considers this all par for the course. “Kennedys love beautiful people, winners,” she says. “They like movie stars, like everyone else. But everybody else isn’t moving in those circles all the time. Kennedy men are intensely, highly sexed. There’s a lot of activity. But the women they marry are solid gold. They need both and they get it. Why not have the cream of the crop?”

There are two other traits Kennedy shares with his father: wit and a penchant for pranks. While working for the city after he graduated from Brown, he kidnapped a secretary’s beloved teddy bears, sent her a ransom note (“We have the bears”), and then executed them in a mock mass hanging. He also sent a stripper to meet with a co-worker who was interviewing prospective secretaries. “I thought she was a good candidate,” the co-worker says. “More articulate than most.”

* * *

Carried to extremes, pranks can reflect an underlying carelessness. But “there’s an incredible amount expected of John,” a friend points out. “He has to sacrifice what a lot of us would consider routine.”

John has had several minor run-ins with the law. Last year, he paid $2,300 in parking tickets. “I later learned the reason [he paid them],” says J. Bertram Shair, the administrative judge who heard Kennedy’s case. “He has to clear himself of all judgments in order to qualify for the D.A.’s office. I don’t think he enjoyed writing the check. He said in view of all the tickets, perhaps he ought to get free parking in the future.” Shair gave him “a gratuitous little lecture. I told him he’s going places. He should take care how he’s perceived.”

The blackest mark on Kennedy’s record is one that will be understood by anyone with a passing knowledge of the habits of 24-year-old men. Between 1984 and 1986, he and a friend sublet a co-op apartment on West 86th Street. According to someone close to the deal, Kennedy was often late with his rent checks and could never remember his keys. “He rang everyone’s buzzer,” the source says. “He drove the super crazy. He had a water bed, which was against the rules. The board was within inches of evicting them.”

Finally, their sublease ran out and the owner returned. “It looked like a herd of yaks had lived there,” the source says. “Somebody had clearly put their fist through the wall. The carpet looked like they’d had cookouts on it. Every surface had to be sanded, spackled, and patched.”

The current president of the building’s co-op board is forgiving, though. “People tend to be tougher on personalities than on the rest of us,” he says.

An older and presumably wiser Kennedy now lives alone in a two-bedroom apartment in the West Nineties. He keeps his keys tied to his belt. Though his new apartment has been “nicely done” with his mother’s decorating help, a friend says it is often “kind of messy.” Christina Haag lives nearby. Kennedy often has breakfast at a health-food restaurant on Columbus Avenue. Then he bicycles 90 or so blocks south to the Village, where he spends his days completing his third and final year at the New York University School of Law. He also works in Brooklyn Family Court, where, as a member of NYU’s Juvenile Rights Clinic, he defends minors accused of felonies.

Late last year, after a series of interviews, he got the $29,000-a-year A.D.A. job, which friends say he coveted. Morgenthau’s office will not confirm Kennedy’s appointment, but friends say he will start work in August.

John and his sister seem to be remarkably solid young people, given the circumstances of their lives, and everyone directs the credit to their mother, Jacqueline Onassis. Under unbearable scrutiny, she raised them amazingly well.

John was known at the three private schools he attended as bright but more rebellious and troubled than Caroline. His most embarrassing teenage moment involved drinking. He and Caroline celebrated their birthdays (his eighteenth, her twenty-first) with a bash at Le Club, arranged by their mother. At five in the morning, as the party broke up, Kennedy and his school friends fought with a National Enquirer photographer. “I opened the door and John was lying in the gutter,” says Patrick Shields, the club’s director, who dusted Kennedy off and deposited him in a taxi. “Jackie’s comment to me the next morning was `I’m walking on a cloud.’ ” Adds Shields, “I don’t think she’d seen the paper yet.”

* * *

John Kennedy has been a public curiosity since he was conceived. He gave out a “lusty cry” at birth, according to the obstetrician who delivered him by cesarean section on November 25, 1960. Seventeen days before, his father had been elected president. As the first White House baby since 1893, John Jr. made front pages around the world. After his christening, his 31-year-old mother imposed a press blackout. The publicity-conscious president fought it with mixed success by sneaking photographers and the kids into the Oval Office when Jackie was out of town, but still, no photos of John were released for a year.

Tidbits about him did leak out, though. In May 1963, he sucked his thumb while meeting astronaut Gordon Cooper but took it out long enough to say “Cooper, Cooper.” And in November 1963, at a Veterans Day program at Arlington National Cemetery, John-John, as he was called, upstaged the troops by performing acrobatics while dangling from the hands of his father and an aide. A few weeks later, the president boarded a helicopter at the White House for a flight to Andrews Air Force Base and then to Dallas. It was the last time he saw the young son Jackie said was “his real kin spirit.”

As a child, John would talk about his father proudly. “He was fascinated,” says a family friend, “and he enjoyed hearing how people responded to that little boy.”

Friends say that now, though John rarely brings up his father, he is gracious when others do. Nevertheless, awkward moments do occur. “One time he was hanging out in somebody’s room,” recalls a fraternity brother, “and they were playing the Stones’ `Sympathy for the Devil’ ” (which contains the lyric “I shouted out, `Who killed the Kennedys?’ / When after all / it was you and me”). “Everyone realized, `Uh-oh.’ But at some point, he’d just walked out and then he walked back in again. He just avoided the situation.”

Friends are careful with him. “It’s never come up and I wouldn’t bring it up,” says Stevelman. “It can’t be an easy thing. During the week of the [twenty-fifth] anniversary [of JFK's assassination], I was worried for him. Who wants to be exposed to that? But he’s incredibly together about it. I’m sure it moves him. How could it not? But he’s integrating it into a sane life.”

“I think he’s very proud of what his father did,” adds another,

Aristotle Onassis died in Paris on March 15, 1975. Jackie’s $26-million settlement with his estate, negotiated with Christina Onassis, added to established Kennedy trust funds and left the children without financial worries.

During the mid-seventies, John was listed in the Social Register, regularly saw a psychiatrist, and changed schools again, transferring to Phillips Academy in Andover, Massachusetts. After being held back a year, he finally graduated in 1979. “He certainly wasn’t at the top of his class,” says a longtime friend.

John also. spent some time at Xenon, the club owned by Howard Stein, who calls himself a “disco uncle” to the Kennedy cousins. They were treated like kings by Stein’s partner, Peppo Vanini, who considered them “the closest thing to royals in America,” Stein says, “and made overtures to induce them into our world.”

Robert Kennedy’s children became Xenon regulars, but “John-John was special,” Stein says. “He was less a disco baby. He was shier, ingenuous. He didn’t leverage his name off the way kids of the famous do in my world. He had star quality. So every time he was there, he got his picture in the papers. It took a scandal for the other Kennedy kids to be photographed.”

* * *

In the next half-dozen years, John would be photographed often in discos with a steady girlfriend, Sally Munro, who was in the class ahead of his at Brown. Kennedy, ever the prankster, identified her to photographers as “Lisa, my fiance.”

Nightlife wasn’t the only temptation. Girls slept outside the door of his dorm room when he was a freshman. He later moved into the Phi Psi house and then into a house off campus that he shared with several students, including Christina Haag. Kennedy was also attracted to the stage, appearing in campus productions of Volpone, Short Eyes, and In the Boom Boom Room. Producer Robert Stigwood even offered John a part in a film, as his father. He was interested. His mother, reportedly, was upset.

The professional offers kept coming after he left Brown “bad things, because of who he was,” says Peter Allen. “He thought it would be fun, but he didn’t want to trade on his name.”

Show business remained alluring, though, and in the summer of 1985, Kennedy finally appeared on a Manhattan stage, starring in six invitation-only performances of Winners at the 75seat Irish Arts Center. The show was a workshop mounted by friends from the drama set at Brown. Christina Haag was a costar.

Kennedy and Haag played star-crossed lovers in Northern Ireland. Leaving the theater one night, John told a reporter, “This is not a professional acting debut. It’s just a hobby.” And reports vary on his talent. A Brown critic once took exception to his “prep-school voice.”

Sometime after the short run of Winners, John’s relationship with Sally Munro ended amicably and Christina Haag stepped into the role of girlfriend. “John had had a secret crush on her since he was five,” says a friend. “Actually, I don’t think it was secret. He asked her out every week and she said no every time.”

Friends say Haag is whimsical, stylish, and quite serious about her career-and that her relationship with John has not always helped it. She never trades on him, they say. Indeed, she avoids publicity that might help her. “They make her sound like a hanger-on,” a friend says. “The fact is, her boyfriend takes away from her craft.”

Friends admit that John and Christina have had some rough sledding. For a while after college, John “was playing around a lot,” says a former co-worker. “He got along well with girls. He enjoyed it, like anyone would.” But now, according to friends of Christina’s, the relationship is strong. Haag even refers to herself as his “law widow.”

* * *

Until now, no one has asked much of John Kennedy. But quietly, off the gossip pages, he has built an impressive resume for a young man just starting his career. The summer before he went off to college, he attended National Outdoor Leadership School with students from the United States and Africa, studying mountaineering and environmental issues at 17,000 feet on Mount Kenya. The next summer, he met government and student leaders in Zimbabwe, and worked briefly for a mining company in Johannesburg. Maurice Tempelsman — Jackie’s diamond merchant companion-probably had a hand in planning the trip.

After his sophomore year, he worked for Ted Van Dyk at the Center for Democratic Policy, a Washington-based liberal think tank. Again, Tempelsman suggested that John apply for the student internship. Living with the Shrivers, Kennedy immersed himself in political organizing, advance work, research, and working the room on a fund-raising trip to Hollywood. That summer, he saw for the first time the power he had. “He began to realize he was a celebrity,” says Van Dyk. “He had his first contact with clutchers and grabbers. He handled it.” John even talked back to Norman Lear, who, says Van Dyk, “went on about what close friends he was with the president,” then said he was saving his money for his own lobbying group, People for the American Way. “You’d be better served giving the money to us,” Kennedy said.

John was “genuinely undecided” about his future, and Van Dyk was sympathetic. “You get a churning stomach thinking about all those Kennedy kids in politics,” he says. “You’re pleased to see them respond as several have, yet relieved when any of them decides to do something else. An expectation hangs over them. I don’t think John feels compelled.” Still, back at Brown, John worked for the University Conference for Democratic Policy, which sponsored disarmament forums on northeastern college campuses.

The summer after his junior year, Kennedy and his cousin Tim Shriver tutored underprivileged children in English as part of a University of Connecticut program. Finally, after he graduated, he stopped for some fun, signing on as first mate on the Vast Explorer, searching for the pirate treasure ship Whidah in the waters off Cape Cod.

Following the 1984 Democratic Convention in San Francisco, where he helped Van Dyk raise more money, Kennedy came home and took a job with the city. In his $20,000-a-year position in the Office of Business Development, he worked to attract and keep business in New York. “His references were extraordinary,” says his boss, Larry Kieves. “He worked in the same crummy cubbyhole as everybody else. I heaped on the work and was always pleased.”

John “wasn’t overly sophisticated,” a co-worker adds. “He was one of the few young people there who acted his age.” She fondly recalls how he would change from his bicycle clothes into a suit in the office, but often leave his shirttails hanging out. (Though he still sometimes dresses that way, he was named to the International Best Dressed List this year.)

In 1986, Kennedy switched jobs, moving to the 42nd Street Development Corporation as acting deputy executive director, conducting negotiations with developers and city agencies. Jackie was on the nonprofit company’s board. “John was an intelligent bargain,” says Fred Papert, the corporation’s president. “Salary was not of grave concern to him. He knew his way around the city. He’s unpredictable in a good way. He was both orderly and passionate-a rare combination.”

Kennedy entered law school that fall. The following summer, he worked for William Bradford Reynolds, the Reagan Justice Department’s civil-rights chief, making $358 a week as one of seven interns. Last summer, his salary improved when he became a $1,100-a-week summer associate at Manatt, Phelps, Rothenberg & Phillips, a Los Angeles law firm with strong connections to the Democrats, and worked for his uncle Ted’s lawschool roommate, Charlie Manatt.

* * *

At last summer’s Democratic Convention, major speakers chose the people who would introduce them. Ted Kennedy asked, and John was delighted. So was a party that was “trying to reach out to the younger boomer crowd,” according to a Democratic National Committee official. Backstage, John “was nervous as hell,” reports an observer. He needn’t have worried. “Stars are born at conventions,” the official says. “He certainly came out as a Democrat everyone will be watching for a long time.”

Does John want that? Friends and former employers say that he seems committed to some kind of public service. “He has a great way with people,” says Andrew Cuomo. “He’s as comfortable with homeless kids in a playground as he is at the Democratic Convention, and that’s truly a gift.” In between law classes, he works with Cuomo’s HELP program, the Fresh Air Fund, the Kennedy Library, and the Kennedy Foundation’s associate trustees. The foundation is behind his latest project: working with the City University of New York on a plan to assist the mentally handicapped. “He’s not doing it to get recognition,” says Dr. Jeffrey Sachs, who is working with John. “He’s a real mensch.”

His enthusiasm falters, it seems, only in academia. One of his NYU professors judged him “unremarkable. Given the opportunities offered someone so blessed, one would have wanted him to give more evidence of ambition, drive, and vision. But maybe my course didn’t inspire him.”

Kennedy has apparently found something to inspire him in criminal law. And it isn’t really surprising that a man whose father and uncle were both murdered should choose to become a prosecutor. The A.D.A.’s job is “tough work,” says his law school friend Stevelman. “It takes someone who really wants to get down and deal with real people’s needs. I don’t think John likes things easy or false.”

“His interest in criminal law is marketable and useful,” adds a fellow law student. “He’s not doing it for money reasons. He’s very curious. He’s interested and open. He’s much more comfortable with black people, for instance, than your average kid of his world.”

Before John ever appeared at the Brooklyn Family Court as a student lawyer, Joseph A. Esquirol Jr., the supervising judge, worried that the court would come to a stop. He recalls thinking that “every woman will leave her desk to come see him. “I couldn’t have that,” Esquirol says, so he called his court staff together. “Don’t make it any worse for him,” he told them. “Try not to drool till he’s gone. I want to give the young man a chance to grow in his profession. He has a right to that.”

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Drooling stenographers aren’t the only obstacle Kennedy faces. “How would you feel, if you were a thirteen-year-old arrested for a chain-snatch, if the son of a president was your lawyer?” asks Esquirol, who has presided over three designated-felony cases in which Kennedy appeared. Says a fellow law student, “[Who he is] comes up all the time. John presses it away and goes on.”

NYU officials and teachers will not discuss Kennedy’s grades, but Esquirol gives him high marks. “I don’t know that he’s the best or the worst,” the judge says. “I don’t envy him one minute. I think he can cut it if he’s allowed to practice without pressure. He’s got the innate common sense, ability, anti presence. He knew what he was doing and why he was doing it.” Esquirol pauses. “If I was a father, I wouldn’t be disappointed to have him as a son.”

John’s work with the underprivileged and disabled, his experience bridging the public and private sectors, his inquisitive mind, sense of obligation, and determination to avoid the obvious, a quick run for elective office, reveal a commendable sense of purpose. “He makes good decisions, not facile ones,” says Stevelman. “He makes a point not to make broad decisions about life.” It’s not that he won’t want our votes eventually. He just doesn’t want them now, when all he would be is JFK II. But John F. Kennedy Jr. will always be America’s son, and that’s a hurdle he’ll face for the rest of his life. “I honestly think,” says one friend, “in 100 years, they’ll say that whatever he did, he succeeded not because he was John F. Kennedy Jr. but in spite of it.”.

By Michael Gross Originally published in the March 20, 1989 issue of New York Magazine

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Sean Penn seen without wedding ring one day after wife Leila George files for divorce

Sean Penn appears to be flip-flopping when it comes to wearing his wedding ring.

The actor, 61, looked downcast when he was spotted on Saturday at a private home dressed to the nines in a tux sans his wedding band – a stark contrast from a luncheon earlier in the day in which he was seen wearing the band.

Both outings came just one day after his third wife, actress Leila George, 29, filed for divorce from the “Gangster Squad” performer a year after telling him “I do.”

In August, Penn, 61, confirmed on “Late Night With Seth Meyers” that the two had a “COVID wedding.”

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Actor Sean Penn is seen for the first time without a wedding ring just one day after his third wife, Australian actress Leila George, filed for divorce from the Oscar winner after a year of marriage. (Coleman-Rayner)

At the time, the two-time Oscar-winner explained: “By that, I mean it was a county commissioner on Zoom and we were at the house, my two children and her brother, and we did it that way.”

Penn maintained that George was eager to tie the knot – so the now-estranged pair figured why not make it happen.

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The “Flag” star shares two children — daughter, Dylan, 30, and son, Hopper, 28 — with his ex-wife Robin Wright, 54, whom he was married to from 1996 to 2010.

Actor Sean Penn ios on record saying he and his third wife, Australian actress Leila George, had a ‘COVID wedding’ and married over Zoom. George has filed for divorce from the two-time Oscar winner after just one year of marriage. (Coleman-Rayner)

Court documents obtained by Fox News last week indicated George filed for divorce from the actor in Los Angeles, California on Friday.

However, in the wake of the dissolution filing, it was mere hours after that photographers snapped Penn at a lunch outing sporting his wedding band.

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Penn had reportedly met with up a pal for a lunch meeting at Ollo restaurant in Malibu. After grabbing a bite, the two congregated outside and chatted each other up while Penn took a smoke break, according to Page Six.

Sean Penn is seen without a wedding ring on Wednesday, Oct. 13, 2021 in Los Angeles, California just two days before his third wife would file for divorce. (Photo by JOCE/Bauer-Griffin/GC Images)

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The actor was also married to Madonna from 1985 to 1989. He has also been linked to Scarlett Johansson and Charlize Theron.

Fox News’ Melissa Roberto contributed to this report.

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USA July 8th 1985

DESPERATELY SEEKING MATRIMONY: ROCK’S BAD GIRL MADONNA AND HER LUCKY STAR SEAN PENN

The engagement of singer-actress Madonna Louise Veronica Ciccone of Pontiac, Mich., New York and Hollywood, to actor Sean Penn, a member of Hollywood’s “Brat Pack,” has leaked out. The bride-to-be studied briefly at the University of Michigan before moving to New York, where she has become famous for wearing lacy underthings, ruby-red lipstick and displaying a come-hither belly button. Mr. Penn is the son of TV director Leo Penn and former actress Eileen Ryan of Los Angeles. His films include Fast Times at Ridgemont High, Racing with the Moon, and The Falcon and the Snowman. He is not fond of photographers and has been seen hiding his face with his jacket. The wedding will take place in late summer in Los Angeles. Maybe.

Their combined star-power should provide show business with the most glamorous - and contentious - pair since Elizabeth Taylor and Richard Burton. First, of course, they have to get to the altar. The moody but gifted Penn, 24, nearly made it there last year before his highly publicized engagement to actress Elizabeth McGovern fell apart. Other pre-Madonna flings include Bruce Springsteen’s kid sister, Pam, and actress Susan Sarandon. Penn, who can be boyishly charming, has always been drawn to talented women, and they to him. “There’s something very identifiable about him and yet mysterious at the same time,” says director Amy (Fast Tiimes at Ridgemont High) Heckerling. Or, as McGovern once put it, “As soon as I met him he fixed me with those piercing eyes that ripped into my heart.”

Madonna, 26, seems drawn to men who can advance her career. But Susan Seidelman, who directed her in Desperately Seeking Susan, says, “I don’t think she needed Sean in opportunistic ways. Movie people are already beating down her door.” Still her past relationships with mentors like New York disco deejay Mark Kamins and later record producer John (”Jellybean”) Benitez have some wondering whether Penn will just be another notch on her crucifix. Others defend her choice. Notes Seidelman: “She could have anyone she wants. If it was just for the sake of getting married, she could marry somebody richer, better looking and more politically connected than Sean. It’s got to be love.”

The two met last February when he turned up (not by accident) on the set of her Material Girl video. She wasn’t swept off her feet but a friendship escalated into a courtship. “He was somebody whose work I’d admired, and I think he felt the same way,: says Madonna. “I never thought in a million years I would meet him.” The two did not date exclusively for several months; still they spent much of their free time together. When she began her concert tour in early April, Penn visited her in Miami, San Diego and Detroit (he met her family there). He brought his parents along to the show in Los Angeles. At one point bad boy Prince tried to muscle in, but her affections focused increasingly on Sean.

“We have so much in common he is almost like my brother,” says Madonna. “He’s really smart and he knows a lot. He’s also willing to play the outsider or nerd rather than the hero that everybody likes,” she adds. “His temperament is also similar to mine.” That may not be so good. Described as “jealous and possessive” with women, he once threw a tantrum when he found out that McGovern was inside a trailer with a male reporter on the set while filming Racing with the Moon.

Madonna seems fully aware of the potential difficulties in a marriage where there are intense professional demands, huge egos and forced separations but, she says, “I am attracted to ambitious people so you’ve got to take what comes with that.”

Will the bride wear white ‘Like a Virgin’? Remember that just for kicks she had her seamstress make a replica of her pearly white concert dress in another color, black, of course.

Written By: Carol Wallace

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Best 75 Wedding Love Quotes

Wedding love quotes just add to your wedding! You can simply use them on your wedding invites, wedding signage, wedding decoration, on the wedding table numbers or place names, or you can use few of those wedding love quotes in your wedding speech as well.

Here are the best 75 wedding love quotes for you to use on your wedding day…….

1. “I love you not only for what you are, but for what I am when I am with you. I love you not only for what you have made of yourself, but for what you are making of me.” – Roy Croft

2. “A great marriage is not when the ‘perfect couple’ comes together. It is when an imperfect couple learns to enjoy their differences.” – Dave Meurer

3. “When we are in love, we open to all that life has to offer with passion, excitement, and acceptance.” – John Lennon

4. “One word frees us of all the weight and pain of life: That word is love.” – Sophocles

5. “When you trip over love, it is easy to get up. But when you fall in love, it is impossible to stand again.” – Albert Einstein

6. “When someone else’s happiness is your happiness that is love.” – Lana Del Ray

7. “Where words fail, music speaks.” – Hans Christian Andersen

8. “To love and be loved is to feel the sun from both sides.” – David Viscott

9. “There is no remedy for love but to love more.” – Henry David Thoreau

10. “Love does not consist of gazing at each other, but in looking outward together in the same direction.” – Antoine de Saint-Exupery

11. “I would rather share one lifetime with you than face all the ages of this world alone.” – The Fellowship of the Ring

12. “I love how she makes me feel, like anything is possible, or like life is worth it.” – Tom

13. “I think I’d miss you even if we’d never met.” – The Wedding Date (Movie)

14. “You don’t love someone for their looks, or their clothes or for their fancy car, but because they sing a song only you can hear.” – Oscar Wilde

15. “When I saw you I fell in love, and you smiled because you knew.” – Arrigo Boito

16. “I love being married. It’s so great to find that one special person you want to annoy for the rest of your life.” – Rita Rudner

17. “Love me when I least deserve it, because that’s when I really need it.” – Swedish proverb

18. “In all the world, there is no heart for me like yours. In all the world, there is no love for you like mine.” – Maya Angelou

19. “There is no more lovely, friendly, and charming relationship, communion or company than a good marriage.” – Martin Luther

20. “Love is a smoke made with the fume of sighs.” – William Shakespeare

21. “Love is keeping the promise anyway.” – John Green

22. “Deep in my soul I know that I’m your destiny.” – Raven-Symoné

23. “To get the full value of joy you must have someone to divide it with.” – Mark Twain

24. “My most brilliant achievement was my ability to be able to persuade my wife to marry me.” – Winston Churchill

25. “I like to believe that love is a reciprocal thing, that it can’t really be felt, truly, by one.” – Sean Penn

26. ‘Two hearts in love need no words.’ – Marceline Desbordes-Valmore

27. “Happy marriages begin when we marry the ones we love, and they blossom when we love the ones we marry.” – Tom Mullen

28. “You know you’re in love when you can’t fall asleep because reality is finally better than your dreams.” – Dr. Seuss

29. “Love is of all passions the strongest, for it attacks simultaneously the head, the heart, and the sense.” – Lap Tzu

30. “We should love, not fall in love, because everything that falls gets broken.” – Taylor Swift

31. “You don’t love someone because they’re perfect; you love them in spite of the fact that they’re not.” – Jodi Picoult

32. “Hear my soul speak. Of the very instant that I saw you, did my heart fly at your service.” – William Shakespeare

33. “It’s delightful when your imaginations come true, isn’t it?” – L.M. Montgomery

34. “Love recognizes no barriers. It jumps hurdles, leaps fences, penetrates walls to arrive at its destination full of hope.” – Maya Angelou

35. “Happiness is to hold flowers in both hands.” – Chinese proverb

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36. “More than kisses, letters mingle souls.” – John Donne

37. “A successful marriage requires falling in love many times, always with the same person.” – Mignon McLaughlin

38. “Being deeply loved by someone gives you strength, while loving someone deeply gives you courage.” – Lao Tzu

39. “Love love and cherish life. Also, just eat the cake.” – Aaron Paul

40. “At the touch of love everyone becomes a poet.” – Plato

41. “Happiness is anyone and anything at all, that’s loved by you.” – Charlie Brown

42. “In all the world, there is no heart for me like yours. In all the world, there is no love for you like mine.” – Maya Angelou

43. “Love insists the loved loves back.” – Dante Alighieri

44. “Life without love is like a tree without blossoms or fruit.” – Khalil Gibran

45. “You are the finest, loveliest, tenderest, and most beautiful person I have ever known and even that is an understatement.” – F. Scott Fitzgerald

46. “…true love is never blind, but rather brings an added light.” – Phoebe Cary

47. “Love must be as much a light, as it is a flame.” – Henry David Thoreau

48. “Love is composed of a single soul inhabiting two bodies.” – Aristotle

49. “I know by experience that the poets are right: love is eternal.” – E.M. Forster

50. “You know you’re in love when you can’t fall asleep because reality is finally better than your dreams.” – Dr. Seuss

51. “I vow to love you, and No matter what challenges might carry us apart, we will always find a way back to each other.” – Leo

52. “Love is like a beautiful flower which I may not touch, but whose fragrance makes the garden a place of delight just the same.” – Helen Keller

53. “We loved with a love that was more than love.” – Edgar Allan Poe

54. “When you realize you want to spend the rest of your life with somebody, you want the rest of your life to start as soon as possible.” – When Harry Met Sally

55. “Grow old with me! The best is yet to be.” – Robert Browning

56. “Love doesn’t just sit there, like a stone, it has to be made, like bread; remade all the time, made new.” – Ursula K. Le Guin

57. “A happy marriage is a long conversation which always seems too short.” – Andre Marois

58. “A marriage doesn’t have to be perfect, but you can be perfect for each other.” – Jessica Simpson

59. “The minute I heard my first love story I started looking for you, not knowing how blind that was. Lovers don’t finally meet somewhere. They’re in each other all along.” – Rumi

60. “The heart has its reasons which reason knows not.” – Blaise Pascal

61. “The secret of a happy marriage is finding the right person. You know they’re right if you love to be with them all the time.” – Julia Child

62. “And think not that you can direct the course of love, for love, if it finds you worthy, directs your course.” – Khalil Gibran

63. “I believe in pink…I believe in kissing, kissing a lot…and I believe that happy girls are the prettiest girls.” – Audrey Hepburn

64. “The best love is the kind that awakens the soul and makes us reach for more, that plants a fire in our hearts and brings peace to our minds.” – Nicholas Sparks

65. “To be brave is to love unconditionally without expecting anything in return.” – Madonna

66. “Love doesn’t make the world go round; love is what makes the ride worthwhile.” – Elizabeth Browning

67. “Romance is the glamor which turns the dust of everyday life into a golden haze.” – Elinor Glyn

68. “All, everything that I understand, I understand only because I love.” – Leo Tolstoy

69. “Love is a joint experience between two persons–but the fact that it is a joint experience does not mean that it is a similar experience to the two people involved.” – Carson McCullers

70. “Love one another, but make not a bond of love: Let it rather be a moving sea between the shores of your souls.” – Khalil Gibran

71. “I love you right up to the moon-and back.” – Tom Topor’s 1979 play Nuts

72. “Great love affairs start with Champagne…” – Honoré de Balzac

73. “I wish I’d done everything on Earth with you.” – F. Scott Fitzgerald

74. “Let there be spaces in your togetherness.” – Khalil Gibran

75. “Love must be as much a light as it is a flame.” – Henry David Thoreau

Conclusion…..

You can use these 75 wedding love quotes on your wedding day. You can use them to beautify your speech or embellish your wedding décor, or make your wedding invite romantic! These popular quotes by the famous personalities will simply add to your wedding day. So, don’t miss to make the best use of them at your wedding!

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