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Today is the birthday of Molly Brown, American Parvenue.

That sent me right to Google to look up "Parvenue'': one that has recently or suddenly risen to an unaccustomed position of wealth or power and has not yet gained the prestige, dignity, or manner associated with it.
Margaret Tobin Brown was never known as Molly Brown. It took Hollywood and Debbie Reynolds to stick that name to her. She did, however, survive the voyage on the Titanic!

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Most women in upper classes survived in Titanic lifeboats cheap seats mostly drowned MONEY ALWAYS COMEs FIRST

Money was never supposed to be part of humanity. Your answers are in OP. It doesn't buy you respect or class. It just buys your way out. I wish I wasn't born into a world where money dictated my past and future.

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