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...She kisses him on the cheek and perches on a stool. She is unmistakable from the canvases that surround us: emerald eyes and alabaster skin under a mass of black curls....
...Cecil Beaton. Anne Fleming. Rich friends who financed his survival; artists against whom he pitted himself; glittery personalities who bolstered his self-image....
...Four years later, and I’ve done away with inhibition: I now greet everyone, from chief executives to the FedEx delivery guy, with a peck on each cheek, and air-kissing has become an occupational tic....
...Those plying their trades lived cheek-by-jowl with the nobility in this genteel district....
...Cecil B....
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