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THINGS ARE NEVER WHAT THEY SEEM

Spade and Bourdain

“Sometimes I wonder how all those who do not write, compose or paint can manage to escape the madness, the melancholia, the panic fear which is inherent to the human condition,” wrote Graham Greene in the autobiography Ways of Escape, which chef and TV host Anthony Bourdain kept on his nightstand.

Bourdain’s June 8 suicide, coupled with that of fashion designer Kate Spade, was a one-two punch to our belief that there are some people who are living the

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