When West Egg Meets East Egg: Dating Outside Your Bracket
Peasant meets prince
They met through friends. They didn't really get to know each other before they hooked up. Sometime afterward, they began to get to know one another through texting and maybe hanging out before hooking up again. At some point, she realized he was rich. Ungodly rich. As in, he had ancestors. And when you can mention your ancestors, then your privilege is rooted deeper than the skyscrapers and McMansions that encase privilege.
He made comments like, “People just don’t get it here.” Here being this place where people have student loans and didn't necessarily get a new car when they turned 16.
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