The Secrets of the Upper East Side

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At a members-only club in downtown Manhattan, someone asked Caleb Thorne a question during a game of Truth or Dare: "If you had a time machine, would you choose Blair or Harper?"

Caleb swirled the single malt scotch in his hand, the ice cubes clinking against the glass. His eyes were hazy, drifting with a melancholic drunkenness. "We were broke back then," he said, "living in that shitty apartment in Brooklyn. A girl like Blair, raised with a silver spoon, would have been miserable with me.