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Saturday, June 9, 2007 12:34 PM
Original article: Paris isn't free -- and neither are we

oh c'mon

Oh c'mon -- let's stop trying to make sensitive justifications for our attraction to this story. It's like when I was 12 years old and explained the magazines under my mattress as an interest in "anatomy." Except it's backwards now: I've fallen in with the prudes.

We're not free of this story because we LOVE the way that the bratty Paris is getting a comeuppance. We love the way the coddled Paris has to be uncomfortable. Since we're jealous of her money, that makes the "justice" all the sweeter. We even cross the transom of motherly brittleness and start calling her a "whore," like there's something wrong with that.

Well, I love that whore. :)

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