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Carolyn Bessette’s Love Story Wasn’t A Fairy Tale, But Pre-Internet Dating Looks Like One

Love Story’s CBK has Calvin Klein to introduce her to her prince. Zoomers have Date Drop, a matchmaking algorithm.

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If it had happened to anyone else, it would sound like a heavy-handed production of a right-wing Cinderella: successful New York City girlboss who professes her hatred of commitment falls in love and quits her fashion job to marry the studly prince. The castle is a family compound in Hyannisport, and in lieu of glass slippers, our protagonist wears tiny black sunglasses. Playing the role of fairy godmother is Mr. Calvin Klein.

The tale taking Instagram feeds by storm is FX’s Love Story, which has catapulted itself to streaming records and the doomed romance of JFK Jr. and Carolyn Bessette Kennedy into the hearts of Gen Z women.

The latest in the American Story franchise, it’s a glossy retelling of a tumultuous courtship that played out across the tabloid covers of its time, but which is distant lore for a generation born after the pair’s infamous plane crash. Armed with that distance, producer Ryan Murphy invites Zoomers to project their preexisting case of 90s nostalgia onto the Kennedy couple. They’re more than happy to oblige;........

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