Like Me

by Hayley Phelan

That’s the thing about money. It insulates you from certain truths. If ignorance is bliss, then it’s also the greatest luxury money can buy.

is immoral to be rich; if being rich means having more money than you need, more money than you know what to do with, who do you think is paying that price?

realized then that everybody was pretending, all the time, but that for most people, for the people we call “normal,” the pretending part eventually falls away and the act simply becomes their life.