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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]She was merely slumming it with Gatsby back in the day. A proper high caste girl briefly rebelling, nothing more. Low class gangster Gatsby was deluded and desperate for it to be more.

[b]It's like middle class kids who go to an Ivy or even a public U full of rich kids like UVA and party with and even hook up with rich kids. They think they're really "in" with the rich kids. But after graduation those "friendships" almost immediately fade and all the rich kids end up marrying each other.[/b][/quote]

Ouch. But so true. You might even score an invite to a few of the weddings but you are not in their club, you are merely a hang from college.[/quote]

Water always returns to its level.[/quote]

Raises hand. Grew up decently UMC but nothing lavish, went to Ivy, became friendly with a few cliques of rich kids. Park Avenue, spring break skiing in Switzerland, jet setters from very rich families abroad. Not sure why they liked me but they allowed me to hang around sometimes. Remember a particular girl who I thought was stunningly beautiful and charmingly elegant and friendly. Had a bit of an obsession with her from a distance. Nothing happened, of course. We all quickly drifted apart post-graduation. I went to grad school because it was a necessity, the rest went to New York or London or even grad school but the difference was that for them life was going to be one vast playground while I'd always have to work. Settled into a decently comfortable UMC existence so can't complain. But I periodically look up the name of the girl I'd admired from afar in college. She's now a yoga instructor in LA, living in a multi-million dollar house obviously paid for from trust funds. Seems happy but is still single and instagram shows a beautiful if somewhat aimless life. I'd always thought she was quite intelligent, but for a 40 year old person with tremendous privilege she seems to have accomplished little and lives by the ephemeral. Perhaps it's the middle class in me. I actually feel a bit sorry for her. Unfair, I'm sure.

I also remember reading Great Gatsby in high school and not being impressed with anyone. Too many generations of Methodists and Presbyterians firmly warning against building castles in the sky probably is why. [/quote]

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