pootriarch rated Very Important People: 4 stars

Very Important People by Ashley Mears
Million-dollar birthday parties, megayachts on the French Riviera, and $40,000 bottles of champagne. In today’s New Gilded Age, the world’s …
mostly sapphic·witch·romance (pick two) and, in mentally calmer times, climate paranoia
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Million-dollar birthday parties, megayachts on the French Riviera, and $40,000 bottles of champagne. In today’s New Gilded Age, the world’s …

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