The Other Man EPB: John F. Kennedy Jr., Carolyn Bessette, and Me

Michael Bergin's account of the years he and Carolyn Bessette shared—revisiting the years dramatized in FX's Love Story: John F. Kennedy Jr. & Carolyn Bessette

Would she be alive today? Would we be together? Would we have been happy?

Before she was Mrs. John F. Kennedy Jr. — before the wedding dress, the cameras, the mythology — Carolyn Bessette was a woman of remarkable presence. Independent, stylish, and far more complex than the tabloids ever allowed her to be.

She was also, for a time, dee...