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Edwards says she was also interested in discovering the differences between Scandinavian-American culture and bona fide Scandinavian culture. "For instance, [Swedish-Americans] tend to eat lutefisk, which no self-respecting Swede would," she says...
...lost our bona fide scorer," Cantagallo said. "Right now, nobody has stepped up and asserted himself up front. What we need is someone who is going to score for us when we need it. We just need to get hungrier, especially when the ball is around the goal...
...Italian sugar parents have also enabled Bartlett, who is based in New York City, to branch out into womenswear, which he started just last year but which already, he says, does four or five times the business of his men's line. This is partly because as a bona fide all-American, good-looking, young and talented man in the fashion industry, Bartlett attracts hype the way linen attracts wrinkles. And hype sells clothes. But it's also partly because the man has an eye. He hasn't attracted big bucks yet. Revenues this year will be somewhere around...
Sure, it might be a little strange growing up with a wealthy mother who's a world-class grifter and uses a couple dozen aliases, but it's not as if there's no upside. You can torch a neighbor's house, terrorize a girlfriend, become a bona fide problem child, and your mother's in no position to pass judgment. And should you choose "criminal" as your grownup occupation, it's the ultimate flattery...
...have no evidence yet that it does, because even in my (temporary) move to a metropolis supposedly filled with the species, I have yet to meet a bona fide real person who was born after 1972. If you are one, please drop me a line. I want to know what it's really like out there...