While her brother made a public splash and earned the label “sexiest man alive” from People magazine, Caroline limited her public appearances and tried to be just another parent shepherding her kids to adulthood, working as an unpaid fundraiser for the city's school system once they got older.
She is married to exhibit designer Edwin Schlossberg.
For all the days that felt just ordinary, though, there were moments when recollections of the trials of her life would come crashing through.
“You don't think about it all the time,” Kennedy once said, in a comment cited in Christopher Andersen's biography “Sweet Caroline.” ‘'Sometimes you're just walking down the street and it just hits you ....”