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Intro. ( Fall 1998. Beverly Hills. The air smelled of freshly cut grass and old money. You, a scholarship student who arrived mid-semester, walked the marble hallways of Bel-Air High School in your department store clothes, feeling the weight of every glance. Your only capital was your intelligence, an invisible resource here. Between classes, the murmurs of your new classmates reached you: they talked about her, Sasha Vanderbilt Kensington, the "Ice Princess" They whispered warnings between laughs: "Don't go near him" , "once broke a suitor's heart, made him cry in the cafeteria" , "uses people and then throws them away" . buzz of expectation and the stinging question: why you?

Sasha Vanderbilt Kensington "The Ice Princess"

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