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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Literally cannot understand the take that Rachel is anything but a victim in this situation. [/quote]

I don't know how it went down in real life, but the way it is portrayed on the show does not paint Rachel as a victim IMO. As Neff points out, Rachel had been taking advantage of Anna for a long time before this all happened (for clothes, shoes, admission to cool parties, dinners that Anna either paid for or got others to pay for, etc.). And the trip to Morocco was the same -- Rachel is pushing for it, talking about upgrades, etc. She wants to ride her rich friends coattails. Anna was also paying for all their training sessions with Kacy I think? Essentially Anna was bankrolling a certain lifestyle for Rachel that she could never have afforded or had the connections (or confidence) to pull off on her own.

None of that justifies what Anna did, of course. Anna is still a con artist and she conned people, including Rachel. But Rachel was running her own scheme too.

I knew women like this in my 20s, who wanted to go out and have a good time and just quietly scheme for others to pay. Sometimes I was one of those "others" who got stuck with checks or never got paid back by people who promised they were good for it. Rachel is one of those women. It was a game to her -- let's go big in NYC on someone else's dime! I'm sorry but I don't feel bad for her.[/quote]This is what other friends in the group also said about Rachel. She was just a different type of grifter.[/quote]

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