[Amanda]

I grew up as the first daughter of a wealthy buisness owner. My dad makes $250,000 a year. I lived in an upper class town in Bergen County, 20 miles west of Manhatten. My parents own a house on Stratton Mountain, Vermont, and one in Love Ladies on Long Beach Island in New Jersey. I now go to one of the most expensive schools in the counrty ($45,000/year) without a cent of financial aid and will finish with a cent of debt. My 28-person extended family just speant a week in Puerto Rico, and my parents are in Hawaii right now. I grew up with everything I needed, wanted, or was given to me and never used. My boyfriend didn’t have that. His father is blue collar and I couldn’t even estimate how much he makes. My boyfriends sisters both married blue collar men and work pink collar jobs themselves. They don’t know where I come from, and it scares me to think they might find out. At Christmas dinner (they are Chistian, I am Jewish) I sat with their families while the men (who moved, with their beers, from the couch to the table while their women slaved in the kitchen) discussed how much they hate the people who moved into the new development adjacent to theirs. A development with 3 car garages and huge windows that you know have to be professionally cleaned twice a month. Then the talked about one of their mothers, who recently remarried to an upperclass guy. They critisized her without her there becuase she got her nails done twice a month, and had cleaning people come once a week- and thats when it hit me- I get MY nails done ONE A WEEK, and i grew up with cleaning people coming TWICE A WEEK. I also had massages and facials once a month since i turned 13, and had a personal trainer at the gym since the first time i mentioned to my parents that i wanted to lose weight. I am so scared that his family will find out that my family has money becuase i know how much they hate people with more than them. I talk about it with my boyfriend all the time. We both know that when he finishes college (he is the first in his family to ever go to college) he will be earning a lot closer to what my dad makes than what his dad makes.

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Name : Amanda, Gender : F, Sexual Orientation : Straight, Race : White/Caucasian, Age : 18, City : Washington, State : DC, Country : United States, Occupation : college student, journalist, Education level : High School Diploma, Social class : Upper class, 

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