The First Affair
“I walked the streets in my new suit, looking like any other office drone, and the people I passed on the concrete had no idea I was the balm craved by the man in charge of it all. Eager for confirmation that I hadn’t hallucinated the whole thing, I bought an extension cord and slept with the phone by my head.I tried to focus on work, on submitting my résumé, on my parents’ pending visit and not letting ludicrous daydreams like being the next Carla Bruni creep in. I actually tuned in on myself h...aving a heated debate about whether I would stick with American designers or dare to go foreign like Jackie.The Friday of my family’s arrival we were slammed. With the campaign at full throttle, everyone was trying to figure out how to compete with Partridge, who had nothing better to do than cross and recross swing states, eating corn dogs and telling factory workers who his leveraged buyouts had put out of business that he was the only man who could find them new jobs. Meanwhile, Rutland was hampered by this little country he had to run, so it was our department’s job to coordinate with the campaign to make his routine public appearances double as election opportunities.MoreLess
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