I grew up in Mumbai under the care of parents that were not rich, but not poor. But, given as they were to Bollywood fantasy and kitty party gossip, they aspired to err on the side of rich. That manifested in the way they presented themselves (and me) to the world. And so I got comfortable with the feeling of being outnumbered as a not-rich, not-poor pe…
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