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In the summer of 1962, 19-year-old Mimi Beardsley arrived by teach in Washington, D.C., to begin an internship in the White House press office. The Kennedy Administration had reinvigorated the capital and the united states - and Mimi was wanting to contribute. For a girl from a privileged but sheltered upbringing, the work was the chance of a lifetime. Although she began as a lowly intern, Mimi made an impression on Kennedy's interior circle and, after just three times at the White House, she was presented to the Leader himself. Almost immediately, both began an affair that could continue for the next 18 months. In an age when ladies in the place of work were still considered "girls", Mimi was actually a girl herself - naive, innocent, emotionally unprepared for the joy that arrived when the President's charisma and electric power were fired up her full-force. She was also unprepared for the thoughts of isolation that could follow as she dropped into the two times life of an college student who was simply also the secret lover of the very most powerful man on earth. Then, following the President's tragic loss of life in Dallas, she grieved in private, locked her key away, and attempted to begin her life anew, and then find that her recent would cast a long shadow and in the end destroy her romantic relationship with the person she married. In 2003, a Kennedy biographer described "a tall, slender, beautiful 19-year-old college sophomore and White House intern, who functioned in the press office" in reference to one of the President's affairs. The disclosure set off a tabloid frenzy and soon revealed Mimi and the secret that she got maintained for 41 years. Because her recent had been discovered in such a shocking, public way, she was compelled, for the first time, to examine the choices she'd made. She arrived to understand that shutting down one part of her life so completely got closed her off from a lot more. No longer identified by silence or shame, Mimi Alford has finally unburdened herself with this searingly genuine bill of her life and her extremely private occasions with a very public man. Once Upon a Top secret offers a new and personal depiction of one of the most iconic market leaders and a robust, moving report of a woman coming to terms with her recent and moving from the shadows to reclaim the reality.
