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| | BUSH & KERRY THE EARLY YEARS: Studious youth had an intense drive to succeed |
 | | Kerry's mother, Rosemary Kerry, was a Forbes, a notable New England family whose money was nearly as old as the United States (indeed, on one side, she was a Winthrop, whose money was even older than the United States). |
 | | As a boy, Kerry sometimes vacationed at a Forbes family estate, called Les Essarts, on the Brittany coast of northern France, and at craggy Naushon Island, a private Forbes family reserve off Cape Cod, with about 30 houses clustered around a private ferry dock and miles of trails for horseback riding and hiking. |
 | | John soaked it up, in family talk and on his bicycle adventures around Berlin and later, as he grew older, riding through wider swaths of Europe. |
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