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96. Brooke Hammerling (Founder, The New New Thing) said she’d buy the flowers herself

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I Was a Rebel. I Was Just Like Marlboro Lights

I was smoking like Marlboro lights at the time. My mom or dad asked me to go downstairs and pick up some flowers for my grandmother. At one of the little flower stands in the lobby of Grand Central. This was probably in 1990. And you have to remember it was a different time. People smoke. They're still smoking sections and everywhere. There were some sections on airplanes. I wasn't even addicted. I was just like it gave me something to do. It turned out they had just put a no smoking ban in Grand Central at that time. Really? Okay. Yeah. Well, trouble would find you exactly. Exactly. But I was in the city. Wow.

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