The Phony Countess

Lazy afternoons of tennis and maintenance drinking. Being seen at the opera by the season ticket crowd, and in her bikini by the yacht crew. Costume parties. Club openings and charity balls. Being introduced to celebrities. Cocaine and limousines. Wearing designer shoes once. Cosmetic surgery just around the eyes. Saying ‘please’ and ‘thank you’ and hearing ‘yes, ma’am.’ Being brought the dinner check by a man in white gloves and paying by signing someone else’s name. The always-clean bedsheets of both the dilettante fathers and their dissolute sons.

Ignoring mounting debt. Spinning elaborate webs of interdependent lies. Shining it on.

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Title by: Herm
Story by: David

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