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—Charlotte Clingstone presented a kind of ideal. She was bohemian but accomplished. Worldly but rooted.

Humans are humans whether they’re at work or at home.

When she called Kayla “fat and blundering,” I wasn’t sure if she was really talking about Kayla or about me. Sometimes I felt like she was laughing at me right to my face, like she and herself had become the “us” and I was the “them,” and the joke was that I didn’t know who was who. I figured that her comment was some kind of setup. She was trying

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