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NEW YORK, May 4 (UPI) -- Caroline Kennedy says her mother, former U.S. first lady Jacqueline Kennedy, once left her and her brother, John, alone at the base of a volcano.
The only daughter of slain President John F. Kennedy recalled the incident on Tuesday's edition of "Late Show with David Letterman."
She said it was an example of her mother's "ideas about character building, so that we wouldn't become spoiled."
Kennedy said her mother sent her and her brother to climb to the top of a volcano on an island they were visiting for the day. She didn't say how old she and John were or or where exactly the episode took place.
"[My mother] said she was going to meet us on the way down. And so we went all the way to the top, just like we always did, whatever we were told, and then on the way down, we heard these, you know, engines roaring, and we were like: 'Oh my God. They said that we had to be out of here by, you know, 5 o'clock and it's like, 5 o'clock, but, you know, I'm sure they're just getting ready because they're going to wait for us.' So then when we got down to the bottom of the mountain and they said, 'Here, your mother left $20, and she said that she'll see you in a couple days.' And we were like, 'What?' We were so furious, we didn't speak to her. She couldn't believe it. I mean, she said it was character building once again…"
"Don't worry, the natives are very friendly," Letterman remarked. "They'll look out for you."
"I mean, it wasn't any big deal, it was just, we just couldn't believe that she did that," Kennedy laughed.
Kennedy is promoting her new compilation of poetry, "She Walks in Beauty," which is in bookstores now.
Her father was assassinated in 1963, her mother died of cancer in 1994 and her brother was killed in a plane crash in 1999.
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