In a family of 147, Patrick Marlborough struggled to imagine not being surrounded by relatives, but when Covid-19 struck he didn’t have to
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I am rich. Not in money, status, property, or any traditional form of wealth (unless bootleg Bart shirts count?), but in family. So I consider myself a rich kid, an aristocrat of sorts, in that I have a lot of something that I didn’t earn, and probably don’t deserve. A Jobseeker Prince from a Great House, a storied line of nurses, teachers, train drivers, wharfies, socialists, rabbit hunters and water-bombers. If you could be taxed for having too many cousins, I would be lobbying the government every damn day to leave me and mine the heck alone.
Instead, I’m with my cousins, chilling out, playing Tony Hawk, and eating.
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