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Archive for March, 2006

The rich are different

I never knew rich people till I came here. “Trusties,” we call them, the array of full-time people who don’t have to earn a living because someone—granny, grandpa—left them money. Fitzgerald wrote in The Great Gatsby that the very rich are different, but I’d say that even the not-so-rich are different, very different. The worst [...]

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Homesick for London

How can I be homesick for a country I wasn’t born in, a culture that isn’t mine? Every morning in Massachusetts, I make a pot of tea. Black and white china decorated with the names of English foods (“FRESH MILK & JERSEY CREAM” says my milk jug), tea cosy covered in a flowery print, tray [...]

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