Unscrupulous by Avery Aster5/10/2023 ![]() ![]() At twelve, Lex was already a slave to fashion, especially couture. The season’s periodicals were spread out on Tabitha’s bed. “Anyways, there’s a resemblance between Elle Macpherson, the model who wore the red dress, and you.” She held Vogue’s fall issue up, Macpherson gracing the cover. ![]() “Valentine?” She puffed on a cigarette, exhaling from her mouth. “Remember when my mom took us to Milan to see her friend’s spring show?” Lex’s mother, Birdie Easton, a rock-n-roll legend, received invitations year after year to the best parties, extravaganzas, and fashion shows in the world. Her friend grabbed the Hello Kitty notepad off the pillow and read, “Thirty-six C, twenty-five, thirty-five.”Ī few weeks’ shy of starting the seventh grade, Tabitha had blossomed over the summer into a woman. “Holy shiiit! Mommy and Daddy are both under five-ten. Lex put down the latest Manhattanite Times issue she was reading and replied, “About six feet.” “How tall is seventy-two inches?” she asked her best friend, Lex Easton, who sat on her pink canopy bed. ![]() Tabitha Adelaide Brillford stood back from her bedroom wall, where she’d measured her height with yellow tape then marked it in pencil. I don’t know what happened or why I stopped.” -Warner Truman, CEO of Truman Enterprises and third richest man in the world. “I used to strive to live my life for happiness, not money or status. ![]()
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