After the Broken Engagement, I Learned to Shine for Myself

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Twenty-four hours after Denton Vanderbilt announced our engagement was off in front of the entire Hamptons social scene, I was on a private jet to California.

"Seraphina Rockefeller?" He had said, his arm wrapped around his new flame's tiny waist, his voice dripping with enough scorn to shatter a champagne tower. "She's just a spoiled princess. She'll have her little tantrum and come crawling back in a few days."

He said it while a phone camera was pointed right at his face. The next day,