ANNOUNCEMENT.
I KNEW STEPHANIE PRATT IN HIGH SCHOOL, which I just realized during happy hour this evening. We went on rich kids’ summer program in Paris together. However, she is actually rich and I only shop at Target and Old Navy. I had known wealthy people before then and I have known wealthy people since, but Stephanie was the kind of obscenely rich that I haven’t otherwise encountered. It seemed to put her in an entirely different class of person, and not because she was particularly trying to flash it around.
She came with a friend from LA named Sally who was much smarter/cooler so Stephanie was kind of the sidekick. At rich European summer camp you take two class, your ‘major’ and your ‘minor’, and all three of us ‘majored’ in Paris and the Avant Garde. Although I don’t remember her well, my impression is that she was a very friendly and nice girl, but also super dumb/rich/gangly. Word on the street was that she did a fair amount of coke, but no judgment here. I did a fair amount of coke in college and Steph didn’t go to college (okay, she barely did).
One time, we went to this artist’s studio and he smoked a hand rolled cigarette in front of the class. Some girl from the Midwest was all, ‘I can’t believe he smoked pot in front of us’, and Stephanie and I laughed. She said, ‘If that was pot, we ALL would have known’, and I acted like I knew and agreed, though I don’t think I had ever actually smoked pot at that tender age of sixteen. (It also might have been Sally who said that, I don’t remember exactly.)
Is this my 15 minutes? Fuck. I’m going to try to find a picture I can scan in order to really milk this shit.