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It wasn’t subtle, but it was heart-tugging stagecraft at its best. With sailboats and choppy seas, passed torches and enduring dreams, clan Kennedy summoned the 1960s and showed that the flame _ the one tended by America’s most ardent Democrats, at least _ burns still.
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