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What I Know About Gloria Vanderbilt

My first memory and my last, and many in between, of a die-hard romantic with an iron will. By Wendy Goodman

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how i get it done Audrey Gelman is the CEO and, with Lauren Kassan, the co-founder of women’s co-working space The Wing. She raised a total of $117.5 million in funding in two years and formerly worked as a press aide for Hillary Clinton and, later, Scott Stringer. She lives in Brooklyn with her husband and is nearly five months pregnant. Here’s how she gets it all done.

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marriage: an investigation I poured myself a glass of Champagne and thought about how far we’d come since my husband told me, ten months earlier, that he was boarding a plane to London to be with another woman. He came back to me two weeks later. He’d decided the affair was an ill-conceived midlife Rumspringa. And now, here we were in St. Lucia: This was my reward.

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