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Posted By Deidre 11 months, 2 weeks ago in Business & Finance

In September 2007, when I was making $30,000 a year as a reporter at the New York Post , I found myself doing 90 mph in a $412,000 Rolls-Royce Phantom Drophead Coupe. I didn't want to go too fast — I'm not the gutsiest driver — but the PR rep in the passenger seat goaded me on. As I slowed to cruise through Times Square, pedestrians started taking pictures. “ They think you’ re an heiress,” the car rep said.

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