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...your clone, you would experience a kind of mind meld--not quite a fusion of souls, maybe, but an uncanny empathy with your budding carbon copy. And certainly empathy would at times be intense. You might know exactly how nervous your frail, gawky clone felt before the high school prom or exactly how eager your attractive, athletic clone felt...
...madhouse that is Potomac Mills on a Saturday--especially in the middle of prom season, when every teenage girl in the area is there buying a dress and shoes with her mom--represents the future of suburban life. Suburbanites want to give elegant parties. They want to decorate their houses in style and dress their children correcty. They want, in short, to live above their means...
...strict European parent," says John. Family routines were sacrosanct. Children were expected to be at the dinner table on time. "The most severe form of punishment was when our father wouldn't talk to us for a week." When Madeleine was invited to the prom in ninth grade, it triggered a family fight over whether she would be allowed to ride in the boy's car. Her father's compromise: she rode to the prom with her date, and her father followed them in his car. Then Josef drove Madeleine home when the dance ended...
Better yet, Prom Queen of the Indies. Her crisp, dark beauty radiates the easy breeding of old-Hollywood royalty. Her wide, playful mouth suggests the young Katharine Hepburn; its I-know-I've-got-it look can be read as poise or derision. Waif-thin, Posey must have a Slinky for a spine; her walk is a loosey-goosey dance, as if house music were playing nonstop in her head. The aura is of a Park Avenue deb who gets her kicks downtown...
...often associate music with the special times in our lives--the ballad that was playing at the close of our high school prom, the love melody at our wedding reception, the trip-hop song that was blaring as we picked up boxer shorts at Banana Republic...