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Writing my High Life column made a man of me

It anchored me and gave my playboy life a sense of purpose

‘Until I was taken on to write High Life in 1977, my true accomplishments had been chasing women, spending time in nightclubs, and raising hell in a dinner jacket’: Taki with Joan Collins at El Morocco

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