Following the story’s publication, a new game bubbled up within New York society, of which we’ve just seen an example: Truman called it “the Holly Golightly Sweepstakes.” Every society woman wanted to have been the model for Holly Golightly and claimed with authority that she was the inspiration: Carol Marcus, Doris Lilly, Phoebe Pierce, Oona Chaplin, Gloria Vanderbilt. This keen competition is perhaps a bit surprising, given that Holly is, for all intents and purposes, a prostitute and was based, in many respects, on Truman himself—the beautiful outsider arriving in New York City and trying
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