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The Curriculum
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A gloved finger pointed at me across the street like a summoning.
Like an idiot, I went.
Bruce was 30. Former Calvin Klein model. Cocaine dealer. And somehow carrying the entire history of European luxury in his head — Louis XIII cognac at $4,000 a bottle, which Dom Pérignon vintage paired with which caviar, cloistered nuns spinning silk from New Guinea silkworms.
This was 1982. No internet. No Wikipedia. How did he KNOW this?
What followed was a 5-year education in excess, danger, beauty, and something I'm only now beginning to understand.
He died of AIDS. I didn't.
It took me 40 years to figure out why I was spared.
This episode is that answer.
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