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carpetbagger

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15. Yep.
Mon Feb 23, 2026, 12:15 AM
5 hrs ago

It was weird, my dad made decent money but we weren't rich. But on Long Island, it seemed like everyone was famous. Lorne Henning also lived in our neighbourhood, and unfortunately we had moved to Florida before he brought the Stanley Cup home and used it as a tablepiece for a backyard barbecue, inviting all the kids to have pictures taken. Harry Chapin flipped burgers at my 1st grade class picnics, he had that weird job that kept him home when all the other dads went to Manhattan. But he didn't teach me music, my music teacher was Kissinger's niece (and strangely, Kissinger was the keynote speaker at a Big Thing years later at the Kennedy Center where I was in the chorus, and we briefly met afterwards at the Watergate where I told him about that). And that's like most of the famous people I've ever hung out with.

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