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How One <em>Atlantic</em> Editor Is Spending Her Holidays This Year

It won’t be in the French Alps.
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Last week, Vogue published an article detailing how some of its editors are spending Christmas this year. It was a wonderful opportunity for the denizens of the internet to gawk at unselfconscious proclamations of wealth and access and taste. Just another example of how “rich people are the worst.”

The extremely relatable holiday destinations for these editors included “a seven-day detox programme” at an Austrian health resort that would involve “intravenous vitamin drips” and minimal food; “a secluded villa on one of the world’s smallest private islands, could write themselves.

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