The question
Excluding property, what is the most expensive thing you have ever bought?Originally asked
The Guardian, to a different person each week, The Q&A
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A Tesla for my former husband. He didn’t deserve it.
The Q&A, The Guardian, 28 December 2024 source ↗
A cream suit from Chanel that cost almost as much as a small car.
A 19th-century ebony and cane chair from the Raj period.
I decided I wanted a red convertible Jaguar, because I thought I would look the bee’s knees in it. The first time I drove it with the top down, it scared the shit out of me. After that, I only bought “mom” cars.
A Christian Dior coat.
I will be dead, why would I care?
Hard-working, creative, irreverent.
Dependency. Fascism.
To my first husband for being unfaithful, bossy, and eventually leaving him.
When my kids were little – and now, in my old age.
Warm, sugary, fierce, protective.
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