Robert F. Kennedy Jr. took to social media on Thursday to honor his mom, Ethel Kennedy, with a prolonged submit praising her, partially, for inventing “robust love.”
Ethel Kennedy died Thursday on the age of 96, per week after she was hospitalized after struggling a stroke.
RFK Jr.’s submit got here hours after his estranged spouse, Cheryl Hines, and numerous members of the Kennedy household posted their very own social media tributes.
Nonetheless, he made up for the delay by making it lengthier than different tributes to his mother.
Within the submit, Kennedy stated God blessed his mother with “a wealthy and eventful life,” and stated “even as she declined in current months, she by no means misplaced her sense of enjoyable, her humor, her spark, her spunk, and her joie de vivre.”
Kennedy stated that whereas his mother “wrung pleasure from each second,” he admitted she spent the final 56 years “craving of the day she would reunite along with her beloved husband [Robert F. Kennedy Sr.].”
“She is with him now, with my brothers David and Michael, along with her dad and mom, her six siblings, all of whom predeceased her, and her ‘adopted’ Kennedy siblings Jack, Kick, Joe, Teddy, Eunice, Jean, Rosemary, and Patricia.
“From the day she met my father, her new household noticed that she was ‘extra Kennedy than the Kennedys.’ She was by no means extra enthusiastic concerning the afterlife than when she thought of that she would even be reunited along with her many canine, together with 16 Irish setters — all conveniently named ‘Rusty.’”
Kennedy additionally remembered her “deep — practically blind — reverence for the Catholic Church and irreverence towards its clerics” and the way in which she was “starstruck by America’s presidents,” regardless of realizing them personally.
“She balanced her contempt for pretension and hypocrisy with a boundless tolerance for error and errors in others,” he stated, including that “her sunny optimism ultimately introduced my shattered father again to life following the assassination of his brother after which helped her kids to thrive after her husband’s assassination 5 years later.”
Within the submit, Kennedy claimed his mom “invented robust love,” and “might be exhausting on her kids once we didn’t stay as much as her expectations.”
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Nonetheless, he stated she “was additionally intensely loyal, and we at all times knew that she would stand fiercely behind us once we got here underneath assault by others.”
Kennedy completed the submit by saying he credit his mom “for all my virtues” and is “grateful for her generosity in overlooking my faults.”