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As soon as I had enough money, I bought my own house in the country and stopped trying to be someone I wasn’t. It turned out that what I craved was not boozy parties in the Springs—the cheap part of the Hamptons where the interesting people lived—but the silence of nature and a garden full of floppy-headed peonies. During the year, I lived and worked in a floor-through apartment in a then sleepily unfashionable part of Brooklyn; in the summer, I went to the country.
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