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This figure is drawn from life.

She is about forty-five. I am seated near her at a dinner. Over the course of the evening I learn that she has lived a privileged life, with old money, houses all over the place and family connections to business and politics. She holds degrees from Yale and Oxford and has started her own companies, which are doing very well.

She is about to assume a position as a trustee on the board of an arts body. She

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