ABC: Love For Sale
Julie Panebianco, Boston Rock, 26 January 1983
THEY ABIDE by a Code of Gentlemen, wear elegant tuxedos or tweed, and shake hands limply. The women they desire are haughty and haunting; they dress in slinky black dresses and whisper fetching things like "I care enough to know I can never love you" while they sip champagne and dance to a sixteen piece orchestra.
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