High profile families tend to cast spells on the rest of us ordinary people. We Baby Boomers grew up watching the Kennedys. Some of us wondered what it would be like to be Caroline who got to have her very own pony.
Then we matured and became savvy in the ways of media. We got it those Kodak moments were staged and maybe the Kennedys weren't happy all the time.
Then came the family of John and Elizabeth Edwards. They seemed to be a more educated version of the Kennedys. We wanted, maybe needed, to believe in them.
Yesterday during the trial of her father for alleged playing funny with campaign money, Cate left in tears, reports POLITICO. That was when a witness recounted Elizabeth's dramatic reaction after she learned of John's affair.
Could the Edwards family be one of those described by Tolstoy as unhappy and therefore more interesting than happy ones? Did Cate, even before the death of her brother and estrangement of her parents, grow up in an interesting but unhappy setting?
Perhaps political families shouldn't take the risk of presenting themselves as happy. Maybe that's too much of a stretch for us to believe.
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