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JULIA
Everyone always agreed that it was very sad that Julia’s parents were dead. The first time she mentioned it to Charlie he almost teared up: But that’s awful / I just can’t imagine / My mother is my rock – the latter of which, come to think of it, Julia really should have paid more attention to, as a harbinger of the sort of in-laws she’d have to manage down the line. The two magazine profiles Julia had allowed in the last year – both flattering, both conducted after she’d hired Candace Perry to manage her personal media with an iron fist – had each contained a paragraph dedicated to the fact that she was an orphan, raised by loving relatives (ha!). When pressed about her parents Julia would turn down her lips and drop her head. It was so long ago, she would murmur. It was all so
