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Clothes-a simple black Armani suit, a white Coray divan in the corner of the roo mint tea from a black ceramic pot that he sets back down on a chro which Versace tie I should wear tonight froain, he whispers insistently into my ear

"What if one day, Victor"-Bobby breathes in, holding hter-"what if one day you became whatever you’re not?"

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First we sipped Stolis at Quo Vadis in Soho for some European MTV benefit, then we arrived at the party in Holland Park in two Jaguar XK8s, both of theles in front of the house People definitely noticed and started whispering to each other as the six of us walked in together and at that precisecontinuously for the rest of the evening There was no discernible center at the party, its hosts were invisible, guests had to come up with strained explanations as to why they were there and sootten who had invited them, no one really knew Eh a crowd consisting of Tirass, Pippa Brooks, Fairuza Balk, Paul Weller, Tyson, soe trays of osso buco Outside there was a garden filled with roses and below tall hedges children dressed in To candy-colored punch a the expanse of plush green lawn, and beyond the around inside the house included tarragon, tobacco flowers, bergamot, oakin a black leather armchair while Bobby, in a suit he found on Savile Row, kept feeding et used to it" each ti a ceramic cat that was perched next to the ar an oversized book lying on the floor with the words Designing with Tiles on its cover There was an aquarium filled with cumbersome black fish that struck otten back fro to Reykjavik for the weekend and some people seemed concerned about the fate of the ozone layer while others definitely did not In a bathrooray wool carpet, unable to urinate And then I was biting off as left of ernails while Sophie Dahl introduced me to Bruce and Taes and there were giant banana fronds situated everywhere and I just kept wincing but Sophie didn’t notice

Aled to co over a private joke with Ahtly whenever a tray of hors d’oeuvres-almojabanas specially flown in fro "I do" to just about anything that was asked of her Bentley stared as an aard but well-bred teenage boy drinking pinot noir fro developed a crush on me in a matter of seconds and I just smiled wanly at him as he brushed stray bits of confetti off the Ar and said "cool" as if it had twelve os in it It wasn’t until much later that I noticed the filrapher, though none of the and I realized that maybe none of them knew about Sam Ho and what happened to him, the freakish way he died, how his hand twitchedbecause of how hard his body vibrated Bobby, looking airbrushed, handed le," Bobby whispered "Mingle"

Sone and so from my lips for the past half hour and what I found ht and they’re wrong" because I was yielding, yielding

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The fil area, where she has a tense breakfast with Bruce She sips lukewar to read Le Monde, and Bruce hostilely butters a piece of al Ta a stint in Saudi Arabia without elaborating Bruce’s hair is wet and his narrow face is flushed pink fro a pistachio-colored Paul Sious rooftop luncheon so to which only good-looking people have been invited and Bruce has decided to wear a black body shirt and gray Prada shoes to the rooftop luncheon and he’s really going only because of a canceled booking last month