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comment by tacocat
tacocat  ·  2387 days ago  ·  link  ·    ·  parent  ·  post: Tom Wolfe death: Influential US author of 'The Bonfire of the Vanities' dies at 87

I'm sorry you went through that

As a person with direct Chicago ties but who never actually lived I don't think they get enough credit for being not completely terrible about their own sense of self importance as a city. Reminds me of an AA joke about wanting credit for not committing one crime or another