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I bought myself a diamond pinky ring for two million dollars.
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In my 30s, I was staring at a pair of expensive boots in a shop window when the photographer Gordon Parks came up behind me. He instantly understood, because he grew up even poorer than me; he made me buy them on my credit card.
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A guitar – a 1959 Gibson 335.
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