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“What do you think of all the South Americans flocking to Miami?” I asked Lila. “There’s a great deal of change happening in Florida these days,” he said, peeking at his father’s 1940s Cartier tank. “No one doesn’t,” she seethed in steel magnolia fashion.
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“One has to accept change, Lila,” said Jimmy, one of the few men in New York who looks at home in a tartan dinner jacket and velvet Stubbs & Wooton palm-tree slippers. “Must everyone do away with all tradition?” Lila said, shaking her platinum helmet, looking regal in a vintage ruffled Scaasi not seen publicly since Reagan’s inauguration. Fear and anxiety about the state of the world dominated the conversation, as did, strangely, the controversial decision by male bon vivants in Palm Beach to do away with white dinner jackets at one of the community’s most storied New Year’s Eve bashes. I was seated next to the inimitable society doyenne, Lila Doge Van Hrrummph, and the ultra-conservative blue blood consumer products heir Jimmy Heir-Tight (not their real names) at an arts dinner in a club I belong to that discourages press mentions. palm beach is palm beach because it was built to keep the right people in and the wrong people out.’ i’m so glad angus (her first husband) bought the house when we were first married. Look, things happen everywhere but I don’t have to deal with certain things here.” I didn’t want to have a pre-arranged life. “Look, it’s more remote,” he acknowledged. The kids have a great time but there’s so much more to Aspen” “I hear the public school has a ski lift to the mountain.” Aspen isn’t what people think-there is a real community here and local, full-time residents.”
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“After we moved here, most of my friends told me I’d be back in two months,” he said. The second plane literally flew over my car on the drive into the second tower and I lost a lot of very close friends,” he said in sad, reflective moment. It was traumatic-definitely a motivating factor.
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“Did 9/11 prompt you to move here?” I asked. When we moved to Aspen, it was really a different experience for us.” I always dreamt of not having a repeat performance of my childhood. “How’s life in Aspen these days?” I asked. He looked tanned and relaxed in Loro Piana. “It’s so good to see you,” I fist-bumped Aspen Trader as we made our way from the Little Nell to the bustling Ajax Tavern, where we sat in the glorious sunshine-it could have been a 60-degree spring day. (I always say I am not a skier but an après skier.) While my son is doing black diamond runs with his instructor, I have lunch with a very good college friend who had decamped to the ski hamlet with his family years before. It just so happened that I was going to be in Aspen for a father-son ski trip, though I am useless on the mountain for anything other than picking up the tab. “Plus, Eagle Airport always gets snowed in and who wants to drive all the way from Denver?” I nodded. And the bad guys will get altitude sickness.” Any place else?” I asked, admiring the timeless palm-leaf wallpaper and enjoying the scrumptious vegetarian spring rolls with dipping sauce. And you can’t run down the street with heavy gold bars in your bag. “Someone will always barter a Picasso for a bag of pretzels,” he said. “Do you think anyone would be buying art in that scenario?”