Blessed and bound by birth to her country's most starred and star-crossed family, chained forever to a childhood within its most famous public, private house, the new ambassador will be far away in Edo when, nine weeks from now, the 50th anniversary of her father's brutal destruction will captivate a country in which so many other lives have been destroyed by bullets and bullheaded politics. Once, of course, it was a Japanese emperor's sons who fired on American boys. Soon enough, a Kennedy will bow to his pacifist descendants.
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