“The Upper East Side was like something from Fitzgerald au Thackeray. Teenagers uigizaji like adults. Adults uigizaji like teenagers, guarding secrets, uandishi gossip all with the trappings of truly opulent wealth. And membership in this community was so elite, wewe couldn’t even buy your way in. It was a birth right. A birth right I didn’t have, and my greatest achievements would never earn me.
All I had to compare to this world was what I read in books, but that gave me the idea. I wasn’t born into this world – maybe I could write myself into it. I overheard enough conversations to be...
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