A Kennedy Family Album

Known to family and friends as
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Rosemary Kennedy, 1918-2005
Known to family and friends as "Rosie," the third child of the Kennedy clan suffered from emotional problems, which the family opted to treat with a lobotomy when she was 23. The operation left her mentally incapacitated; she spent the rest of her life in institutional care.

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