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...replaced by waiters with trays of tempura prawns and chilled champagne, the familiar thrill of success begins wafting through the room. As the crowd of sedate scions in evening wear and young women in strappy party dresses watch the televised count point to a stunning Coalition win, supporters like Ashley Cordner don't need the final results to happily declare John Howard a better Prime Minister than the party's grandsire, Sir Robert Menzies. "I think history will be critical of those who have talked about his shortcomings," he says...
...nightclub and this guy had a Ray Charles look-a-like by his side, I believed him. In between dancing with some other friends, Arnaud Poulain (the French guy) told me that he wanted to buy a bottle of champagne. After a mediocre attempt on my part to dissuade Ashley from ordering Cristal, she told the waiter her selection. While the sparklers in the Cristal cork were going off, Arnaud gave me the first sign that he may not have been driving a Ferrari when he arrived at “veep...
...Ashley tried to reason with Arnaud, but he wouldn’t pay. After a couple of minutes of negotiation, she gave up and gave the server her credit card to pay for the 500 Euro bottle. I don’t know if the server was a moron at processing credit cards or if there actually was a problem with her card, but for some reason it would not go through. Having just paid my rent that day, I gave her the 60 Euros in my wallet...
Freaking out at having left Ashley behind, I tried calling her cell phone, but I couldn’t get through. My other friends tried to calm me down by reassuring me that they don’t put girls in prison over bottles of Cristal. We found a little cafe and sat down to chill out. Ironically, I was eating a beef carpaccio salad when I was able to get through to Ashley, who had in fact been taken away by the police in a paddy wagon...
...rest of the night is a haze. I do know that I frantically called parents, friends, and the program director (who had given an incorrect cell phone number). I had lost contact with Ashley and eventually I passed out at my apartment at around 8 a.m. At 11 a.m., I woke up realizing that I had just missed the TGV—French for “very fast train”—to Provence with my program. I also had no idea what had happened to Ashley. It turns out that she had been kept (with Arnaud...