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Did you read any of the bits in between your ellipses? ...stinking rich from three trust funds: one from his father, Walker Inman Sr., heir to an Atlanta c
by azernik 13y ago
Did you read any of the bits in between your ellipses?
...stinking rich from three trust funds: one from his
father, Walker Inman Sr., heir to an Atlanta cotton
fortune and stepson to American Tobacco Company founder
"Buck" Duke; one from his mother, Georgia Fagan; the third
from his grandmother, Buck's widow Nanaline Duke, who left
the bulk of her $45 million estate to her little grandson.
The money involved was made by people with the same genes as Walter Inman, Jr.
- wavefunction 13y agoAnd his father also died from "consumption" or "getting too fucked up too often" disease. I've had some exposure to the "very wealthy" and they're just as fucked up at a rate as someone you might find in the trailer park tradition. It's often a factor of luck.
- Amadou 13y agoConsumption is a synonym for tuberculosis, nothing else.
- temphn 13y agoYou know what, looks like you're right on this one and I am wrong. It wasn't clear on a first read whether they were saying "his father" as in "his biological father" or "his adoptive father", but on a second read you're right. I still think the statements hold in their generality but clearly not in this specific case.