What I knew: When you have no money, nobody cares about you. I’d seen my parents go through that. I’d gone through that. When you’re poor and you live paycheck to paycheck, or exist off someone else’s grudging generosity—when they make sure you know exactly what they’re giving you and want you to be grateful—I knew how that felt. And I knew that when you have money, you have power. You have people’s attention. So when you come from nothing and you get access to money, you go from feeling like a speck of nothing to feeling very valuable. And now that I was Mrs. Hefner, at least I had something:
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