These photographs were taken about a week before Carolyn accompanied John to his sister Caroline’s birthday celebration as his date. Carole Radziwill described the interaction in her book ‘What Remains’:

“A week later we are back in New York and at Caroline's apartment for her birthday. John makes an entrance with Carolyn. This is her official coming out. There have been rumors and sightings and John puts them all to rest here. Relaxed and dressed in black, she walks casually into the apartment beside him, holding his hand. They have been back together for a few months. Caroline hugs her brother warmly and hesitates for a brief moment before greeting his date, So nice to meet you. Her friends smile politely and then shift their focus to John.

I am sitting in the library, and the room, as it always does, shifts when she walks in, even if nobody notices it but It's an impenetrable circle, this room, it sometimes seems. I know what she's walking into. There is a shared past here that is too intricate to explain. The kind of shared past that is communicated by winks, by facial expressions, by half-sentences-the short-cuts of intimacy. It is as if they stop talking when you walk in, and they do, in a way, because they speak to most outsiders in a different manner.

I am an outsider here but a quiet one. I watch and adapt, but not Carolyn, I can see. She walks into this guarded room radiant and stubbornly original. Impulsively affectionate. She sees me immediately and smiles big. It's been two years, but we pick up as though our conversation had just been momentarily interrupted. Oh, now where were we? We skip all the formalities and plunge right back in.”

John and Carolyn early in their relationship, November 14, 1994.