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A mean time in Greenwich

At 17, Truman Capote ‘just wanted to get out of Greenwich and get to New York’.

At 17, Truman Capote ‘just wanted to get out of Greenwich and get to New York’.

At 17, Truman Capote ‘just wanted to get out of Greenwich and get to New York’. The local high school paper may have provided his first byline, but the dazzle of the bright lights, big city proved too much.

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