Carolyn Bessette Was Living the Dream. Then She Met John.

Ms. MacNicol is the author of the memoir “I’m Mostly Here to Enjoy Myself” and the host of the podcast “Wilder: A Reckoning With Laura Ingalls Wilder.”

There is a three-minute scene in the first episode of Ryan Murphy’s FX show “Love Story: John F. Kennedy Jr. and Carolyn Bessette” that I can’t get out of my head. In it, we first meet Ms. Bessette in her downtown apartment, pre-John. It’s 1992. Her clock radio alarm goes off. Primal Scream’s “Loaded” begins to play. She rolls out of bed, plucks some clothes from a pile and walks to the subway, hair tousled, Parliament cigarette in hand. She emerges in midtown, takes in the front pages of the tabloids and then uses cash at a newsstand to buy another pack of cigarettes and a copy of Vogue. She’s joined by a........

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