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Art. We have some Picassos and Diego Riveras.
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A Rose Wylie painting.
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Holidays. In the Spice Girls, we found ourselves with quite a few quid, so it was lovely to hire a big house in the Caribbean and have friends and family over.
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It's bad taste to brag about money.
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My husband and I own some art, but we are not huge spenders.
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