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Depending on who is talking or listening, the mention of the name JonBenet Ramsey may conjure any number of different meanings or memories. Whatever the mention, reference and meaning or interpretation, JonBenet remains high-value for association no matter how long or broken the dotted line. Here is the JonBenet connection to a book written in 1988 by an ex-boyfriend that describes his prior experiences with the ex-wife of the son of the ex-prosecutor in JonBenet's case and where said ex-girlfriend becomes the future ex-girlfriend of an ex-Presidential candidate --

True Story
Jay McInerney's Story of My Life.
By Morgan Meis


"I'm like, I don't believe this shit." That's the opening line of Jay McInerney's Story of My Life. The thought is coming from Alison Poole, the protagonist of the novel (if you can use that term). McInerney based the character of Alison Poole on a woman he dated in the ’80s. Her name back then was Lisa Druck. She later married a guy named Alexander Hunter III and changed her name to Rielle Hunter...

Whatever name she goes by — Alison Poole, Lisa Druck, Rielle Hunter — she jumps out of McInerney's book and into the ages. After her stint as a New York party girl in the ’80s she drifted to Los Angeles where she became Mrs. Hunter. Her father-in-law, Alexander Munro Hunter, was the prosecutor in the JonBenet Ramsey murder case..."

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