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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I'll give another SMU story:

Freshman year, I was 18, had broken up with my boyfriend here.  We both came from money but we would do low key things, like go to the inn at glen echo, go to shows, go out to clyde's, etc. It was what I was used to.

A sophmore at SMU asked me out for a date, and I said yes.  Well, he picked me up in a chauffeured SUV (and these were in the days before Uber, so you had to arrange that shit) and takes me to Nobu, where he promptly drops $500 on our meal.

Over the course of the amazing dinner, he kept bringing up Uncle Albie. I had no idea who he was, and he kept mentioning going to Monaco to see him.  I kind of thought, "that's weird, I dont give a shit about you uncle, but okay, another Monaco story."  (Yes, i was young and an idiot, never had been to the south of france or monaco before)

Anyway, we went on a few more dates and it fizzled out.  A couple weeks later he went to Monaco for spring break, posting pictures with "Albie".  I believe Uncle Albie got married that summer- anyway, I saw his face in the papers- and immediately recognized him and the Crown Prince Albert of Monaco.  Utterly ludicrous.  [/quote]

Uncle Albie, himself, went to Amherst for college.  You will find a lot of interconnections between Wall Street, Texas, and the Old South.  My DH is from an old Southern family - there are streets named after them in their mid sized Southern city.  They made the bulk of their money on Wall Street and attended Ivy league schools.

Many families who started in New England have relatives who moved to Texas to make their fortune.   Look at the Bushes.

OP, if you knew the background of many of prep school classmates, you will find that many if not most of their families are from somewhere else.[/quote]

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