To be blunt, she was not an attractive person. She had a pinched nose and tiny eyes. But she had her advantages: rich parents, which afforded her a degree from NYU, an apartment in SoHo, the money she needed to ride out an unpaid internship worry-free, a financial safety net that would allow her to try and try and try until she succeeded, until she could say she had worked hard and it had finally paid off, that success was a matter of pluck, not luck of the draw. She had never waitressed—I was sure of it—she had never smiled at lecherous diners for an extra buck. She was born into money, and I
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