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Was Tim Just an Exciting Item to Her?

from The Manor-Born · #6

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3 min

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Tim explains why Dan never had a real shot with her, framing the relationship as her sampling an exciting 'up-and-comer' lifestyle, and they debate whether Dan was her lowest-born conquest, plus Mario Tennis and Queens jokes.

In this bit7 moments
  • 19:21Emotions ruin and impoverish you, and the decisions they cause lead to decades of bitching and complaining.
  • 19:42She was on a show called Billions but doesn't even have thousands and can't pay for her kids' braces.
  • 20:02Tim may have been the lowest-status person she ever slept with, though he claims he's tied with others or close to it.
  • 20:39Toward the end of the relationship, she didn't want to take an Uber to Queens to eat halal food or play Mario Tennis with him.
  • 21:24She went to the Met Gala with another legacy guy while Tim was crying at the Cellar.
  • 21:55Tim assumes the other guy is trying to sleep with her, and the $50,000 Met Gala ticket proves Tim's not in that financial league.
  • 22:14Tim describes himself as a temporarily embarrassed millionaire, citing the American myth about how the poor see themselves.
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