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#149 The Big Rich (Oil Billionaires)

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It's hard to tell people about Texas. It's hard to explain what it means to be a Texan. But if you grew up in Texas, as I did, it becomes a part of you. As if you're a member of a club. The myths about Texas die so hard mostly because Texans love them.

is wrapped up in oil. But the fact is, growing up in central Texas during the nineteen seventies, I never met an actual oil man. It wasn't until I was sixteen.

The weekend I served as an escort at a debutant ball. That I was introduced to the class of Texans Known as the big rich. They talked of boarding schools and weekends in Las Vegas, and wine in Paris, and jetting to London. And my head just spun and spun.

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