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The Cab Cards

Singer:

Ian:

Marshall:

Cash:

Johnson:

Back of the Green Cards:

Back of the brightly colored cards:

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Carriage House Days

Just off the corner of Connecticut and N Streets in Washington, DC is a reasonably imposing red-brick urban mini-mansion, which, a small plaque informs you, once belonged to General Henry Robert, who, you probably don’t know, wrote Robert’s Rules of Order. But back in 1975 when I worked there as a file clerk, we called it “the Carriage House,” because of the large room in the basement which indeed had once been a carriage house.

Like everyone else in the Carriage House, I worked on the “White & Case Case” for the law firm of Arnold & Porter, started in the late forties by two New Deal alumni, Thurman Arnold and Abe Fortas, who were then joined by another New Dealer, Paul Porter. Fortas was appointed to the Supreme Court by his very good friend Lyndon Johnson, who ultimately but inadvertently all but ruined Fortas’ life by seeking to elevate him to Chief Justice, leading to a number of scandals that both prevented Fortas from getting the job and, later, forced him to resign from the Court altogether, which might not have happened if Fortas hadn’t been Jewish, and would have been the nation’s first Jewish Chief Justice.

This was all ancient history by the time my association with the firm—mute, inglorious, and brief—began. Thurman and Abe’s original idea, it seems, was to found an early version of a “boutique” law firm, handling just a few “interesting” cases. Unsurprisingly, that strategy fell by the wayside as Washington boomed. The firm was originally housed in a number of the row houses on N Street, most spectacularly by an impressive mansion on the corner of N and 19th that had been owned by Teddy Roosevelt when he was Assistant Secretary of the Navy during the McKinley Administration. However, by the time I arrived at the Carriage House, most of the senior staff were housed in the I.A.M Building, a Washington, DC sized “skyscraper” on the corner of N and Connecticut, owned by the International Association of Machinists, whose president, William “Wimpy” Wimpisinger, was regarded by some as the most “dangerous” labor leader in America, though if Wimpy ever did anything dangerous, I never heard about it.

Most of the people in the Carriage House were young women, either paralegals or secretaries, which left me doubly the odd man out, or even trebly so, because I was quite possibly the oldest person there—of the regulars, at least—though a fortunately youthful appearance kept my presence and position there from looking as dubious as in fact it was.

I spent most of my time copying and collating documents. The enormous Xerox machines of the time could only copy a single page at a time—no automatic feeds and, of course, no automatic collating. I once spent three days assembling 50 copies of a 300-page document. Occasionally, I would read through transcripts of depositions and circle the names of "important" people whenever they appeared. One of the attorneys at many of these depositions would introduce himself at the start of each session in the following manner: "My name is Bobby Lawyer and I am an attorney."

I lived on Q Street, just a few blocks away from the Carriage House, in an efficiency I rented for $175 a month, furnished largely from what I scavenged from the street. I slept on a $50 mattress and listened to a $1200 stereo, both spread out on the floor. I sat in a worn wicker chair and ate from a worn card table, kept my books in a worn bookcase and my 100-odd jazz albums in a cardboard box.

The young women in the Carriage House who were single would often go to a bar they called “the Airplane”, located nearby on 19th St., but I was far too shy to do that. I would not have wanted to go to a “pick up” bar of any sort, and most certainly would not have wanted to go to a pick up bar frequented by women I knew at work.

However, there was a jazz club located in the basement of the town house right next to the Carriage House, “Harold’s Rogue and Jar”. I never found out what the name meant. I would go there occasionally and sit at the bar without talking to anyone. I would order a bacon cheeseburger with steak fries and a diet Coke. I can’t remember any of the names who appeared at the club, but it was serious jazz—nothing like the terrible “cool jazz” of today. The house drummer was a woman named Dottie Dodgione, who I think was the club manager as well. She was in her fifties, I would guess, with a stiff bouffant hairdo who wore pant suits, and ended each number with a furious solo. Sometimes, despite the jazz, the stress of being around so many people would get to me, and I would take my meal home, wrapped in heavy aluminum foil, and I would sit in my wicker chair and eat my rich bar food in peace and quiet and solitude.

After eight months at Arnold & Porter, I was fired, something anyone with the slightest percipience could have foreseen. Somewhere in Moby Dick Herman Melville warns sea captains not to hire “Platonists”—those with their eyes fixed only on invisible horizons—and he could have offered the same advice to law firms. But my time at the A&P was far from a complete loss. A month before I was fired, I was feeling so flush that I shopped for furniture, at Woodward & Lothrop, then DC’s largest department store. I chose a $400 sleeper sofa, blue and white plaid, a $150 butcher block table, and two Breuer chairs, which I had first seen in an optometrist’s shop and had thought were very classy. I didn’t have a credit card and didn’t know if Woodie’s would take a check, so I paid with $800 in cash, in the form of 16 fifties I had withdrawn from the bank the previous day. It was an investment that, though it might have seemed ill-timed, was in fact very much the reverse. Shortly after being fired, I started dating a young woman who would change my life significantly, a young woman who, I think, would not have dated a man who slept on a mattress on the floor and ate from a card table and a worn wicker chair.

Afterwords The rear windows of the Carriage House faced on the alley behind N Street. A “celebrity” hair dresser, whose name I never learned, parked one of three classic cars that he drove to work each day in that alley—a funereal-looking green and black pre-war Rolls Royce, a post-war Rolls that was cream with red pinstriping, and, surely the pièce de résistance, a midnight-blue coffin-nosed Cord convertible with a tan roof, its chrome supercharger exhaust pipes gleaming in the sun. I wonder how many people would drive such cars in rush-hour traffic today.

The top floor of the IAM building had both offices for Arnold & Porter and the Machinists’ Union. The A&P had lots of attractive, stylish young women who worked as secretaries and receptionists. One of them who sat at the front desk of the top floor told me how difficult it was to keep a straight face when the Machinists’ big shots came swanking in in their horrible 70s-era polyester leisure suits—mint green with white piping and matching white shoes, or what smirky journalists liked to call a “full Cleveland”, white suit, white shirt, and white shoes.

Shortly after I left the A&P, the Carriage House was commandeered by Carolyn Agger, a senior partner and Abe Fortas’ wife. Carolyn, who had been housed in the IAM building, was afraid of elevators, and wanted an office in a building with a nice staircase.

A year or so after I left, Arnold & Porter deserted N Street entirely, building the “Thurmond Arnold Building” at the corner of New Hampshire and M, but they didn’t stay there long. The firm has now merged with a New York law firm, Kaye Scholer, becoming Arnold & Porter Kaye Scholer LLP, with offices all around the world. The DC office is on Massachusetts Avenue, just southeast of Mt. Vernon Square, a stretch of road that constitutes one of several “lobbyist lanes” radiating from the Capitol.

During the McCarthy years, Arnold, Fortas, & Porter defended many people accused of communism. Fortas in particular was a frequent opponent of Joe McCarthy, but the opposition to his appointment as chief justice seemed to come mostly from southern Democrats, who often saw integration as a Jewish/communist plot. When Jesse Helms (R-NC) was elected to the Senate in 1972, one of his goals was to “get” the Jews. He was a furious opponent of Israel until the Reagan years, when it was finally explained to him that you couldn’t make it to the very top in DC unless you learned to play ball with AIPAC.

The White & Case Case involved another law firm, in New York. One of its senior partners, a Mr. Eply, was facing criminal charges brought by the Securities and Exchange Commission, accusing him of criminal behavior based on the advice he gave to a White & Case client, Cortez Randell, a sixties wheeler and dealer who ended up doing time, though, I’m pretty sure, Eply did not. The SEC’s case against Eply was one of first impression, and naturally White & Case was willing to move heaven and earth to protect both Eply and other attorneys who might find themselves in legal peril merely for trying to turn an honest buck or two.

The story of Cortez Randell and his company, National Student Marketing, had been spectacular enough to be the subject of a book, out in paperback while the White & Case Case was still gaining momentum, called The Funny Money Game, by Andrew Tobias, perhaps not the first and certainly not the last up and coming Harvard graduate to make a name for himself by writing a book about his experiences on Wall Street under the tutelage of Mammon.

The way National Student Marketing “worked”—the reason why Cortez Randell got so rich so quickly and then imploded—was that Randell had either discovered or invented “synergy”. This meant buying out firms that provided goods or services complementary to whatever it was NSM was already selling—“better together”, one might say. But the “real” secret was that NSM didn’t buy other companies with money; it used NSM stock instead, which was better than money, because it increased in value every year.

There are lots of things wrong with this model—NSM was going to run out of “complementary” firms to buy, NSM stock was going up because the economy was expanding and all stocks were going up, not because NSM was so fabulous—but the biggest and simplest reason of all is that any financial instrument that can be better than money can also be worse than money, setting a pattern that has repeated itself a number of times since, on a scale far more spectacular than NSM’s. Someone comes up with a brilliant idea, a better mousetrap, and makes a lot of money, and creates a financial instrument based on that idea—be it a simple share of stock, a mortgage-backed security, a collateralized debt obligation, or whatever—that is “better” than money, and a lot of people get rich on that financial instrument. Eventually, however, the better mousetrap, whatever it is, stops being better, and becomes the new normal. It’s lost its edge. But the people who have gotten rich off their “better than money” gimmick can’t believe that, or won’t believe that. The line that went around among the Wall Street geniuses who almost sank the world’s economy back in 2008 was that you don’t stop playing “Musical Chairs” until the music stops, even if you see the chairs disappearing. However, when the music had stopped, they started singing—and telling lies—until there were no chairs left, leaving the government to pay for all the furniture they’d destroyed.

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Name: Teagan Bradley Age: 27 Sexuality: Up to Player Gender: Female Portrayed By: Rose McIver  Availability: Open

“Annie Pierce might not have been the nicest girl, but she still didn’t deserve what happened to her. No one deserves that.”

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Teagan is one of those girls who just fits in with everyone. She was never popular, but neither was she unpopular. She wasn’t anything really. She just sort of drifted around from group to group, getting along with pretty much everyone. She was happy this way. She didn’t care about being popular or social status or anything like that, she was content with her drifter ways. She did, however, have one main best friend. Rhys Addison, whom she grew up next door to, across the street from the soon-to-be-locally-famous Pierce family.

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She did attend Annie’s funeral, feeling like it was the respectful thing to do. She knows that Annie had a lot of people that didn’t like her, but she would never say anything about how she ‘had it coming’ as she doesn’t think anyone deserves to be killed and also feels like it would be rude and disrespectful to the family to say anything about the dead girl, even if she was pretty mean. Teagan has attended all the funerals (public ones anyway) of the victims in this town over the past few years. She just likes to be respectful. Treat others how she’d like to be treated.

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The night of Evan Johnson’s (owner of the Green Dove) murder, Teagan was round the back of the pub taking photographs. She heard a commotion inside and tried to look through the window but it was late, the lights were off, and she couldn’t see much. She did, however, lift her camera up to the window and try to take a few pictures but she’s too terrified to look at the film now that she knows there was a murder. She keeps it stashed away under her mattress. She was even more terrified when someone called -A got in touch with her and started blackmailing her to take photos for them whenever they wanted to. She’s certain -A is the one who killed Evan but she doesn’t know what to do about it. She has her own secrets to keep safe, after all.

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Matt DiBenedetto wants to be the face of NASCAR. Now he needs cash.

NASCAR driver Matt DiBenedetto is sitting on Willie Nelson’s old tour bus watching me crash his race car into a cement wall.

It’s Friday afternoon, the day before the Federated Auto Parts 400 at Richmond Raceway in Virginia. DiBenedetto, his director of communications Ryan Ellis, and I are playing NASCAR HEAT 2 on Xbox to pass the time before DiBenedetto runs his qualifying laps. This old RV has been on the race circuit for a while now since Willie stopped touring in it (if the rumors are true), and sometimes DiBenedetto and Ellis stay here, parked among other drivers’ personal, shiny, multi-million dollar buses. One of the walls near the front bears the signatures of Richard Petty, Darrell Waltrip, Jimmie Johnson, and other NASCAR legends.

Everything about DiBenedetto’s life is on wheels. When he isn't moving, he's sitting around waiting to move. He gets to the track each week on Thursday night, whether the race is Saturday night or Sunday afternoon, and the hours between practice, qualifying laps, and races stretch long. DiBenedetto, 26, and Ellis, 27, are best friends not only because they like each other, but also because they understand the strains of being on the road 38 weekends a year. Besides Ellis, the people DiBenedetto hangs out with most are his parents, his wife Taylor, and Cosmo, his 40-something neighbor who owns a car dealership.

"I don't see anyone," Ellis says, eyes on the screen, hands on the controller. "Getting older means being lonely."

At some point, DiBenedetto signed his name on the wall under Waltrip's. But, unlike most of the other drivers, he left off his car number. Perhaps in the hopes that No. 32 won’t be what he’s saddled with forever.

“You're pretty stuck there, try backing up,” DiBenedetto says. He and Ellis, who was also a full-time driver until this year, laugh as they watch me realize Ellis is actually controlling the car on the top screen that I thought I was moving. On the bottom half of the screen, I've actually been slamming DiBenedetto’s character into a barrier on pit road for a full minute.

We restart, and DiBenedetto’s car materializes, magically repaired. I’m looking at the right one this time as the green checkered flag falls. Ellis, who’s racing as Dale Earnhardt Jr., wins. I come in 27th, and apologize to Real Matt for Computer Matt’s less-than-stellar showing.

“That’s okay,” he says, “That’s probably about where we’ll finish tomorrow anyway.”

DiBenedetto declines to play as himself. Ellis says he'll do it, so we switch controllers. He changes the location to Bristol Motor Speedway and rockets around the short track. He wins again. Computer Matt climbs out of the car on the black and white checkered pavement of victory lane and stands on the roof, pumping his pixelated fists as confetti falls. The scene is familiar; DiBenedetto became the youngest winner in Bristol’s history when he raced late models there 10 years ago.

“That guy looks nothing like me,” DiBenedetto says. “What's with my dang hair?”

Computer Matt is a scrawny guy with red, curly hair, and a full beard. Real Matt — who peppers his speech with “dang”s, “darn”s, and “gosh”es — has straight, brown hair that always looks like it’s picture day at school. His face is boyish, handsome, with a jawline he squares up by trimming his short beard just so.

DiBenedetto also has biceps. Put together, they're almost the same size as his substantial core. He works out a lot, and has grown into a sturdy dude since he won Bristol as a 5’1” 16-year-old clocking in at a whopping 75 pounds. You have to be strong to wrestle a car without power-steering around a track. He sweats out 15 pounds of water and burns thousands of calories over three and a half hours during a race. NASCAR is as physically grueling as it mentally punishing.

There might be a glitch in the game, because Computer Matt won’t stop pumping his fists. Real Matt gets up from the pleather banquette to take a video of the video game celebration. He’s obsessive about documenting his life on Snapchat, Twitter, Facebook, Reddit, and Instagram. This mostly entails posting videos of him pranking his wife, Taylor, with rubber snakes, or cannonballing into the pool next to her while she's sleeping on a float, but also includes candid reactions to very good and very bad races. DiBenedetto gets his sense of humor from his mother, Sandy. She’s a tiny, energetic woman who recently snuck into DiBenedetto’s house to hide a lifelike plastic tarantula behind the toaster. Her son is scared of spiders.

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DiBenedetto’s followers respond to his social media presence with fierce loyalty. Despite having a fraction of the followers big name drivers command, he almost made it into this year’s All-Star race on the fan vote.

DiBenedetto tells me he identifies with Dale Earnhardt Jr., the way he connects with fans.

“That’s what I’d like to be,” he says.

The sport is battling the perception of declining national interest and waning viewership, and, with Dale Jr. retiring, it could use a relatable guy like DiBenedetto to step into the spotlight. DiBenedetto knows he has the talent and personality for it. He also knows he has to nail down big time sponsors or join a state-of-the-art team for it to happen.

As the son of an appliance repairman, DiBenedetto wasn't born into money. And if you want to win in NASCAR's Cup Series (the major leagues), you need cold, hard cash to fund one of the completely custom-made, spaceship-like vehicles required to win in NASCAR today. These things are hunks of technology that get tested in wind tunnels, calibrated down to milli-everything, and cost $20 million to maintain for one season. The days when you could buy some parts, screw them together, and become a hero the way Dale Earnhardt Sr. did are long gone. A sport that markets itself as blue collar is closer to America's Cup sailing than it would like you to know.

DiBenedetto’s story is Sisyphean: Since he was 5 years old, he’s been pushing, endlessly, to get to the top of the sport he loves. He’s been bowled over and he's tumbled down many times. But — thanks to his raw talent, dumb luck, and sheer force of will — he’ll race tomorrow night at the highest level of the sport in a car that has his name on the side. His equipment isn't the best, and he knows there’s no way he’ll win. But just the fact that he’s made it this far, he says, is like lightning striking twice.

He can finally see the crest of the hill. The question now is whether he can make it to the top.

Sandy calls DiBenedetto her “oops baby.” When she found out she was pregnant in 1991, she and DiBenedetto’s father, Tony, were in their late 30s, already had three kids, and were running Tony’s business fixing washers and dryers. Sandy says she cried for the entire first trimester, but is quick to add that Matt’s been the best thing that ever happened to the family.

Family lore has it that Young Matt fell in love with NASCAR when he caught a glimpse of a race as his father clicked through the TV channels trying to find a baseball game. He became obsessed, watching every Sunday after that, tracking his favorite driver Jeff Burton in the No. 99 car.

DiBenedetto is telling me The Myth of Matt on Thursday night from the passenger seat of Ryan’s 2012 Ford Focus. Ryan’s driving us from his house just outside of Charlotte, North Carolina, to the Richmond Raceway. Ryan always drives. DiBenedetto hates driving anything when there’s a destination. He only likes going in circles: driving race cars around tracks, doing doughnuts in parking lots, forcing ATVs up and down mounds of dirt.

Once they realized DiBenedetto was hooked on cars and there was no dissuading him, Sandy and Tony bought him a go-kart, then a modified car. DiBenedetto turned his family's grassy backyard in Northern California into a dirt track. When he got home from school, he would drag the unwieldy garden house out to the yard so he could water, rake, and tamp down the dust of his race course. Then he’d fire up the engine of his lead sled — brap, brap, brap — and tear up all his hard work, splattering mud onto the metal of his machine as he careened around the corners he'd constructed.

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DiBenedetto at a NASCAR Pro East Series race at Dover International Speedway in 2009.

DiBenedetto started winning races, then championships. People at tracks who watched him deftly maneuver the used go-karts and modified cars the DiBenedettos could afford would tell Tony and Sandy to “do something with this kid.”

So they did. When DiBenedetto was 12, the family moved to North Carolina. They wanted to be close to Charlotte, where the majority of NASCAR teams are headquartered, but the city was too big and busy for them. So they settled on Hickory, a small town about an hour outside of Charlotte that has a race track.

DiBenedetto was fresh out of Outlaw karts and just getting into racing Legends cars on local circuits by then, winning race after race at the Hickory Motor Speedway. He soon graduated to Late Models, and won lots of those, too, eventually touring up and down the East Coast.

Despite his promise, when DiBenedetto was 16 his parents realized they couldn’t afford to pay for his passion anymore. They wanted to, but it was just too darn expensive. If DiBenedetto was really as good as everyone said he was, someone — a team owner, a wealthy patron — would put him in a car, Tony believed. So he told his son he was going to sell all of his racing equipment.

A lot of families on the race circuits below NASCAR often say they’re going to get rid of everything. They’ll kvetch about it at races with other parents, saying to each other, “Oh, yeah, this year is the last.” Owning a race car is like feeding a growing teenage boy; you can’t ever put enough into one. But most of the families who threaten to quit don't. They’ll show up the next year with a few new parts, maybe a new trailer.

Tony actually followed through. DiBenedetto came home from high school one day to find that everything was gone. His cars weren’t in their parking spots, and the truck his parents dragged the trailer behind had disappeared. The trailer was gone, too. Their little makeshift shop next to the house was empty. You’d only know someone there drove race cars because of the trophies in DiBenedetto’s room.

“And then, at the end of the season, another driver came in with millions of dollars. I was out as quick as I was in. So again, I’m like, well, my career is over. I have nothing.”

“It was time number one of one thousand that I thought my career was over,” DiBenedetto says. “I thought I was all done.”

DiBenedetto says his family thought they’d be able to run a team for him because they were “naive.” His parents use the word “naive,” too. They also all say “struck by lightning twice,” and Sandy and DiBenedetto list the racing equipment they sold in the same order. Tony says that if DiBenedetto ever disrespects a fan, even if he’s super old, he’ll “get out of his wheelchair and kick his ass.” DiBenedetto tells me that if he ever disrespects a fan, Tony will “get out of his wheelchair and kick my ass.”

The DiBenedettos know the script. They’ve had to tell and sell their story to countless sponsors, team owners, fans, and (more recently) journalists just to keep DiBenedetto in the sport. They schmooze, network, cold-call businesses, and market DiBenedetto — who turns himself into a human billboard whenever he puts on his fire suit splashed with sponsor’s logos — just to stay in the sport.

At this point in the story, we pull into a gas station in the middle of nowhere. DiBenedetto asks Ellis if he needs gas, and Ellis says no, we should be fine. As Ellis pays for the energy drinks and snacks he’s hoping will help him stay awake, DiBenedetto goes outside and fills up his friend’s car anyway.

We get back on the road. It’s 11:30 — we’ve been driving for close to two and a half hours, and we still have two left. That’s nothing for these guys. They're now on a team with enough money to fly to most races, but the first time they raced together in 2014, they’d drive across the country smushed into the backseat of a van with 10 pit crew guys. They recall some of their trips, like the time they overslept and had to Uber to the racetrack in Chicago. It's funny to imagine: two race car drivers with their helmets and fire suits in the back of some stranger’s Kia.

After Tony sold his racing equipment, DiBenedetto was rudderless for a while. But, just like Tony said they would, people started calling, offering rides. First, it was a team out of Asheville, then it was a family in Charlotte. DiBenedetto hopped in and out of different cars and put up more incredible finishes.

It was during this time that DiBenedetto won at Bristol. Then he got a call from Joe Gibbs Racing, a powerhouse team that guys like Kyle Busch and Denny Hamlin drive for. Gibbs had been keeping an eye on him since he beat his team in a race a few years ago. They wanted him to come in for a meeting at team headquarters in the Charlotte area.

DiBenedetto, who was 17 at the time, had no idea what to expect. He thought they just wanted to meet him, say hello, keep him on the back burner. Instead, they put a contract on the table in front of him and told him to sign if he wanted a development deal.

DiBenedetto couldn’t pick up the pen fast enough. It would be the first time that he had steady access to equipment commensurate with his talent. He started beating most of the people he raced against in one of Gibbs’ K&N cars (think minor, minor leagues of NASCAR). He was ripping up concrete tracks like he was back on the West Coast tearing through the dirt of his old backyard.

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Matt and Tony after Matt won the NASCAR K&N Pro Series East Race at the Bowman Gray Stadium, on Saturday, June 4, 2011.

So the team bumped DiBenedetto up and put him in an Xfinity car in 2009 (think triple-A). He’d never driven one before. They’re a whole different animal from K&N cars, but that first race in the Xfinity Series was a dream come true anyway: DiBenedetto finished an impressive 14th after running second for most of it against big names like Kyle Busch and Matt Kenseth.

The next season was a nightmare. Everything went perfectly wrong. DiBenedetto didn’t get to practice enough, and he only got to run six races. He made mistakes he says he’d be able to avoid now, but he also had a lot of bad luck, from blown tires to wrecks that weren’t his fault.

“And then, at the end of the season, another driver came in with millions of dollars,” DiBenedetto says. “I was out as quick as I was in. So again, I’m like, well, my career is over. I have nothing.”

Sandy and Tony say they’re glad the Gibbs deal didn’t work out. They think their son has stayed grounded because he’s had to fight so hard to stay in the sport since then. But DiBenedetto has a hard time truly believing that. If he’d done well, it would’ve been a fast track to a ride in one of the best Cup Series cars on the circuit. He could’ve been a household name by now.

Instead, DiBenedetto went home to Hickory. He was 19, and, feeling like he was out of options, went to work at Carillo’s Collision Repair, an auto body shop in the area.

“I wanted to blow my brains out every day,” DiBenedetto says, turning around in his seat to look at me. “Not that I was unappreciative of life or anything, I just had no passion for doing that crap. I hated it.”

DiBenedetto worked at the shop while he continued to network in the NASCAR world. He’d run some races on the weekends, but during the week he fixed normal cars that normal people drove to run normal errands. It smelled like racing — engine grease, burnt rubber, oil-soaked rags — but it was the opposite. It was standing still.

Eventually, a family-run team took a liking to DiBenedetto and let him “start and park” the worse of their son’s two Xfinity cars. This meant that DiBenedetto would qualify the car, then start the race so the owner could collect the money from simply making the field. DiBenedetto would then run a handful of laps and drop out, so as not to burn through a fresh set of wheels.

Then he’d go back to Hickory and the auto body shop.

As frustrating as it was for DiBenedetto not to be able to run full races, just being in the cars paid off. The Motorsports Group (TMG) noticed him and offered him a deal starting-and-parking. They eventually moved him into one of their Xfinity cars in 2014.

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Ryan Ellis racing at Daytona International Speedway in 2016.

At this point in our road trip, Ellis has started interjecting more as DiBenedetto talks. He was also racing on and off for TMG at the same time DiBenedetto was, so he’s in the story now. He remembers the races, the practices, the long cross-country drives, the sponsor meetings, that DiBenedetto is telling me about.

Ellis’s grandfather built cars for Mario Andretti and died in a crash the same year Ryan’s father was born. But despite being a racing family like the Elliots, Earnhardts, or Childresses, the Ellises didn't get rich from cars. They couldn't fund Ryan's career.

Ellis misses driving more than he’s willing to admit. When a few fans recognize him at the track over the course of the weekend he lights up, thrilled to sign their cards and hats. What Ellis doesn’t miss is the cutthroat side of the sport. Last year, he kept getting bought out of races by richer, younger, and less experienced drivers who come from family money (we're talking serious money, here: NASCAR drivers are the sons of Vegas casino owners, heads of agricultural lobbies, owners of airlines). It was the same thing that happened to DiBenedetto at Gibbs.

“I became emotionless,” says Ellis, who dropped out of college two classes shy of a marketing degree to drive full time. “Literally. I felt like I was just a zombie. When I’d get bumped from another race, I’d be like, ‘Oh, well that sucks, I’m going to hang myself again.’ I don’t blame the teams, it makes sense for them. But you just become numb.”

He’s glad to finally have a steady paycheck working for Matt. And if it can’t be him, at least his best friend is the one who got one more lucky break than he did. When someone he knows bumps into Ellis bumps at the track and asks what he’s up to now that he’s not racing, he tells her, “I’m living Matt’s dream.”

Despite the fact that DiBenedetto drove well for TMG, the team dropped him at the end of 2014. Thinking it was all over for the umpteenth time, but refusing to quit, DiBenedetto kept calling, emailing, and taking team owners out to dinner trying to schmooze his way back in. He says he even drove eight hours to show up at the Daytona 500 uninvited to convince a team called BK Racing to give him a chance. It worked, and he ran some races for them starting in 2015. Last year, he drove to a sixth-place finish at Bristol, his lucky track. The cars weren’t great, but BK eventually gave DiBenedetto a proper crew chief — a surly guy named Gene — and a dedicated crew that worked on only his ride.

At the end of 2016, DiBenedetto signed with GoFas Racing. A family named St. Hillaire owns the team — they made their fortune running garbage removal and port-a-potty businesses in Maine. GoFas was doing poorly every week, and wanted to be better. DiBenedetto — handsome, talented, personable, available — seemed like the perfect guy to drive their No. 32 car.

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DiBenedetto says that everyone thought he was crazy to sign with GoFas. Gene told the St. Hillaire’s, to their face, that their cars were “junk.” But DiBenedetto believed if he could turn a low-budget program around, maybe the owners of the best teams would finally consider him. Maybe the big-time sponsors would come calling. Maybe the NASCAR world would realize he wasn't going away.

So far, he seems to be doing it. In used equipment and almost no time, DiBenedetto has taken the team to its best finishes ever, including two in the top 10. He came in ninth at the Daytona 500 and eighth in the Brickyard 400 at Indianapolis — two of NASCAR’s biggest races. GoFas has improved from 38th to 31st in the owners points standings.

The problem is that a whole lot of money still separates DiBenedetto from where he is now and the chance of winning a Cup race. This weekend at Richmond, a finish close to the top 20 would be GoFas’s version of coming in first.

But 20th isn’t first. DiBenedetto’s best still won’t earn him a trophy, and it drives him insane.

On Saturday night at Richmond, DiBenedetto comes in 31st.

The bright floodlights of the raceway glint off the advertisements on the hood of his car as he pulls into the pits. His fenders are scraped up, and the track smells like burning rubber and gasoline fumes. When DiBenedetto takes his helmet off and climbs out of the car, his usually perfect hair is poking up and matted down in various places. He’s a little pale. His lips looked chapped.

“We sucked,” he says.

Ellis and DiBenedetto are driving to back to Charlotte tonight because they want to sleep in their own beds rather than the cramped bunks of Willie’s old bus. Ellis will drive, that is. DiBenedetto will probably fall asleep in the passenger seat after about 45 minutes. But before they can hit the road — before DiBenedetto can even change out of his fire suit — he has to go talk to the sponsors he’s been shepherding around the track all weekend.

These sponsors are wealthy, but they're not giving DiBenedetto enough for him to finally end up in a car as good as he is. For that to happen, DiBenedetto needs to convince a huge corporation to back him, or find many more smaller businesses that want to slap their logos onto his body. He has no choice. In NASCAR, marketing is as much a sport as the driving itself. Even though DiBenedetto signed for another year with GoFas, it all still feels precarious.

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Most people like DiBenedetto — including Ellis — have given up the dream of driving. In Ellis’s car on Thursday, both of them joked that the most talented driver in the country is probably driving a tractor somewhere. But racing cars is DiBenedetto’s only passion. His stubborn optimism makes him think that maybe someday his skill, dogged ambition, and charisma will be enough. Despite the many times he’s seen evidence that it might not be. The dang world just isn’t fair.

“All I can do is turn left,” he says.

Since DiBenedetto was 16, people have been asking him what he’ll do if this all falls apart. He’s never had an answer, and even thinking about it is terrifying. He keeps straining against that boulder, believing he will get it over that hill. Somebody has to make it, and DiBenedetto refuses to accept that he might not be the guy who does.

Except that it’s not up to him. He’s reminded weekly, thanks to the leaderboard, exactly how far away he is from becoming the face of NASCAR. His story is familiar and deeply American; he wasn’t born with the right last name, or the correct amount of zeros in his bank account, and no matter now hard he pushes his foot down on the pedal of that No. 32 car, it won’t be enough, not unless something changes.

DiBenedetto finally takes off his sweaty suit and puts on a T-shirt and shorts. He and Ellis say goodbye to the sponsors, the team, and DiBenedetto’s parents. They duck into the media center to grab some free pizza before they head back to Ellis’s car.

I retrieve my bag from where I left it on the counter of the GoFas hauler and bump into Curtis, one of the guys on DiBenedetto’s team. He’s older, tall, with a big, white beard, broad shoulders, and a sizable belly. Curtis loves NASCAR. His parents used to carry him to races before he could walk. Working on cars is the only job he’s ever had.

“I can't imagine doing anything different,” Curtis says. “They'll be carrying my cold, dead carcass out of here.”

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OK, September 7

Cover Story -- Cher’s dream wedding at 74 

Page 1: Big Pic -- Katy Perry got dolled up in an array of funky ensembles to promote her song What Makes a Woman

Page 2: Contents 

Page 3: Contents 

Page 4: Melissa McCarthy thriving at 50 -- after her milestone birthday Melissa’s opening up about how she overcame hardships to come out on top 

Page 5: For years Prince William and wife Duchess Kate Middleton have watched from the sidelines as Prince Harry and Meghan Markle have dominated headlines but the couple are finally ready to tell their side of the story in a sit-down TV interview -- it won’t be a scandalous interview but it will certainly right a few wrongs and misconceptions 

Page 6: As Drew Barrymore gears up for her talk show premiere she’s counting on her famous friends to bring in more viewers, as Kim Kardashian and Kanye West struggle to keep their marriage afloat Caitlyn Jenner has been sending them well-wishes but Kim would rather Caitlyn just keep her lips zipped -- Kim’s told everyone to keep their opinions to themselves while she works through this crisis one-on-one with Kanye but Cait’s been sounding off and telling anyone who’ll listen how she believes he’s gotten a raw deal, Chrishell Stause is out to destroy ex Justin Hartley’s reputation and his new romance with Sofia Pernas -- Chrishell is bitter and is calling out Justin as a liar and a cheater and telling friends that his new girlfriend should be careful

Page 10: Red Hot on the Red Carpet -- stars sparkle in champagne hues -- Elizabeth Chambers, Angela Bassett, Kim Kardashian West 

Page 11: Jennifer Lopez, Scarlett Johansson 

Page 12: Who Wore It Better? Thandie Newton vs. Georgia May Jagger 

Page 16 -- News in Photos -- Cara Santana celebrated her birthday on the beach in Malibu 

Page 18: Rita Ora vacationing in Corfu in Greece, Dwayne “The Rock” Johnson and his daughters Jasmine and Tiana, Pete Wentz plays tennis 

Page 20: Nick Barrotta got in a workout while shooting scenes for The Oval, Ireland Baldwin spent the day at the beach with her uncle Stephen Baldwin 

Page 21: Sofia Richie paddleboarding, Alessandra Ambrosio playing volleyball, Gavin Rossdale takes a shirtless stroll on the beach 

Page 23: RHOBH star Brandi Glanville helping wash a friend’s car, Adam Sandler shooting hoops on the street 

Page 24: Inside My Home -- Brittany Snow’s selling her home in Studio City for $2.7 million 

Page 26: The Property Brothers double baby joy -- Drew Scott and his wife Linda Phan are finally expecting and his twin Jonathan Scott’s girlfriend Zooey Deschanel is also pregnant 

Page 27: Ben Affleck is being kept on a tight leash by girlfriend Ana de Armas as she wants to know where Ben goes and who he’s with at all times and she gave him a 9 p.m. sharp curfew, Rachael Ray and husband John Cusimano have found a silver lining in the wake of their devastating house fire as it made them appreciate what really matters most is each other so for their 15th anniversary they’re going to renew their vows with a few added words inspired by what they’ve learned in the aftermath of this tragedy, Bindi Irwin and husband Chandler Powell already have themselves a cash cow in their unborn child because the demand for an interview with Bindi and Chandler about their pregnancy news is huge right now and they’ve learned from her mom Terri Irwin that cashing in at the right time is key plus they could really use some extra money right now since the family business Australia Zoo isn’t doing so well 

Page 28: Ever since Melanie Griffith got word that ex Antonio Banderas had tested positive for Covid-19 she has made it her mission to help nurse him back to health by calling at all hours and texting him with tons of advice to keep his strength up and although Antonio appreciates her acts of kindness his girlfriend Nicole Kimpel feels the two are getting too close for comfort especially since she’s been at his side throughout the ordeal, while the rest of the world is in chaos Cameron Diaz and Benji Madden are keeping cool calm and collected as they dote on daughter Raddix and Cameron is looking for answers about how to raise a child in these crazy times and she’s found crystals and psychics to be so helpful, Love Bites -- Chrissy Teigen and John Legend are expecting baby no. 3, Miley Cyrus and Cody Simpson split, Jesse Metcalfe and Corin Jamie Lee Clark are dating 

Page 29: Meg Ryan and John Mellencamp ended their on-off romance last October and John moved on with Jamie Sherrill but lately Meg has been blowing up John’s phone and he’s happily answering -- Meg’s recent move to Montecito in California brought her closer to John who’s been in L.A. a lot more since that’s where Jamie’s skincare business is -- John thinks Jamie is a lovely lady but he and Meg are soulmates and it’s a matter of when not if they’ll get back together 

Page 30: Cover Story -- Cher is getting married -- the legendary star is set to stay I Do to her 27-year-old rocker beau 

Page 34: Lifestyles of the Young and Famous -- the plush and pampered lives of billion-dollar celebrity kids -- North West, Emme Muniz 

Page 35: Blue Ivy Carter, Harper Beckham, Princess Charlotte 

Page 36: Louis Bullock, Penelope Disick, Shiloh Jolie-Pitt 

Page 37: Moroccan and Monroe Cannon, Apple Martin, Mom Knows Best -- a few of the best mommas in Hollywood -- Jennifer Garner, Reese Witherspoon, Gwen Stefani 

Page 38: Interview -- Selena Gomez dishes it out 

Page 40: How Cindy Crawford stays in tip-top shape 

Page 41: Like Mother, Like Daughter -- Kaia Gerber is a chip off the old block in the health and wellness department 

Page 44: Style Week -- Megan Thee Stallion is Revlon’s new face 

Page 46: Run errands in style with a superchic totally sleek tiny phone purse -- Zoey Deutch 

Page 47: 5 minutes with Tiffani Thiessen 

Page 48: Fashion -- the classic post earring gets a bold and stylish upgrade -- Margot Robbie 

Page 50: Beauty -- beauty booty from around the world 

Page 52: Entertainment 

Page 53: Fall TV preview, Q&A with Mister E 

Page 58: Buzz -- in living color -- these stars recently transformed their dresses -- Jesse Williams goes blue, Lady Gaga in green called Ocean Blonde, Jim Parsons goes blond 

Page 59: Emily Ratajkowski goes blonde, Sarah Hyland goes red, Faith Hill goes pink, Joe Jonas goes platinum, Ariel Winter goes blonde, Gigi Hadid goes darker, Kaia Gerber goes pink 

Page 60: Sound Bites -- Olivia Colman on portraying Queen Elizabeth II on The Crown, Andy Cohen on which Real Housewives he’d trust to babysit his son Ben, Angelina Jolie on quarantining with her six kids, Luke Bryan roasting pal Blake Shelton 

Page 61: Adele responding to a fan who asked when she’d be releasing her next album, Jennifer Aniston on playing a celebrity news anchor on The Morning Show, David Arquette on teaming up with ex Courteney Cox for Scream 5, Kelly Ripa to daughter Lola on her habit of stealing her mom’s crop tops 

Page 62: Horoscope -- Virgo Zendaya turned 24 on September 1 

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An Intimate Conversation with Danny Clinch: His Latest Exhibit & Love Song to Asbury Park

An Intimate Conversation with Danny Clinch: His Latest Exhibit & Love Song to Asbury Park

“You’ll have to excuse me,” smiles Danny Clinch. “My head is hurtin’ a little bit, so maybe we can hang on the couches?” With a cup of coffee in hand and bleariness in his eyes, the famed music photographer explains that he had only gone to sleep a few hours ago. After a performance with his musical group, The Tangiers Blues Band, at a Howard Johnsons-turned-supper club in Asbury Park the night before, Clinch wandered over to his new gallery space at the Asbury Hotel. Sometime around 11:30pm the band had, as the photographer puts it, “a bit of a jam.” Former E-Street Band percussionists Vinny Mad-Dog Lopez and Richard Blackwell stopped by. Another musician dressed in a Safari outfit got on stage at one point and “started barking at people, telling them what to do,” laughs Clinch, who plays the harmonica. Hangover aside, he beams, “it was incredible.” 

Though photographers often operate within the binary of “artist” and “subject,” Clinch, 53, has come to inhabit the same world as the icons he captures. In the process of building an oeuvre of work that has offered intimate glimpses into the lives of superstars like Bruce Springsteen, Tupac, BB King and Johnny Cash—Clinch’s own life has become deeply shaped by the road, late night jam sessions and the process of making music. “Transparent,” his newest exhibition that will remain on display at the Asbury Hotel through April, offers a stunning and immersive depiction of this symbiosis. 

The light-flooded gallery that also has a stage for musical performances, offers a genre-bending assortment of both Clinch’s most iconic and lesser-known works. There is a story for every image: Green Day after their mudslinging shenanigans at Woodstock ’94 (“One of the security guards was pushing around the fans, so Mike got off stage and went down there. Security thought he was another kid, so they started beating on him”); Willie Nelson recording his 1998 album Teatro in California (“Daniel Lanois told me to come out there so I booked a ticket a few hours later); Springsteen at home playing music from Devils And Dust (“it was the first time anyone had heard the songs”). 

For Clinch, who attended the New England School of Photography and worked as an assistant to Annie Leibovitz, the incubation of his dual interests in music and photography began in Asbury. As a teenager he drove from his Toms River hometown to catch sets and take photographs of acts like the Stray Cats and the Greg Allman Band at the now legendary Stone Pony. But when Clinch began focusing solely on music photography in the early 1990’s, Asbury once again became his playground. “When I moved to New York and people didn’t want to shoot in the city, but wanted something that was still gritty, I suggested Asbury,” he recalls of the beach town that was then suffering from high crime rates. “There was nothing here, no businesses. I would go into Convention Hall [on the boardwalk] and there are big huge windows so the light floods in. You could just walk in there and own the place.” 

Springsteen’s Wrecking Ball photos were taken at a little bar over on Cookman—the Boss also drove Clinch’s 1948 Pontiac onto the boardwalk one afternoon for a series of images. “I was like, ‘Are we allowed to drive it up on the boardwalk?’” Clinch remembers of the shoot. “Then it was like, “Oh yeah, you’re Bruce Springsteen.” 

  You’re the first artist to have an exhibit at the new Asbury hotel. How did this collaboration arise? 

The hotel had this empty space and winter was approaching, so they offered it to me and put me in touch with a company called Baron and Baron to help plan it out. As soon as we began brainstorming we were like, “How can we make this different than just a regular gallery?” The huge windows in the entrance allowed us to do beautiful transparencies of my work. We also had my friend Tina Kerekes, who sells mid-century furniture and who I met on the boardwalk, come in and curate all the furniture. She helped set a vibe. We decided to put a stage in here to have some music. The idea was to have it be an experience–come in, hang out, bring your coffee in. We wanted to maximize the wall space, so we also brought in moveable walls.

How did you settle on the set-up of the images?

For the biggest wall in the space, I wanted to do a salon-style wall. I was going to frame all of this stuff and then I and then I discovered this board with foam-backing, so I thought it would be cool to come in and freestyle it a little bit. I chose the images and the sizes and we sat here the other night and made a little pod of photos here, a little pod of photos there. I also purposely included some local folks like Nicole Atkins, Brian Fallon and Joe Grushecky. 

At The Light Of Day Festival here in Asbury, Joe plays and usually Bruce [Springsteen] comes out and pays. A few years ago Joe invited me to play with his band, who usually ends up backing Bruce. So Joe says, “Bruce is coming out–let’s find out where you fit-in on the list!” I was freaked out, I was going to play “Murder Incorporated” on my harmonica. So I’m watching the set list and the song is coming up and coming up and then Bruce and Joe are talking and they’re looking at me and they go: “Alright! We’re doing ‘Pink Cadillac’ in G!” [laughs] Fortunately I had the right harmonica because I had to play the right key. I came back to Bruce saying something like “And here’s our friend Danny! He can sure take a photo but I don’t know about his harmonica playing. [laughs].” Then  he rips into Pink Cadillac [sings the opening notes] and looked at me like “Go ahead . . .” [laughs]. I laid it all out on the table. I love Joe forever for that. 

When did you start working with Bruce?

I had done all the stuff for The Rising in 1999 when he got the E Street Band back together, that’s when I started photographing Bruce. Being a guy from New Jersey I was like, “Ok I can die now” after that. And then he was doing Devil’ And Dust, and I was like “oh man, it would be so cool if he hired me again.” He hired Anton Corden. and I was like “Drats! I got my chance, so it’s all good.” And then I got a call from management saying “Hey Bruce wants to make a short film about this new record and he wants you to come to the house and film him playing some of these songs.” So I went to his place and that photo, [the one in the front of the gallery], comes from that session. I shot it all on super-16 and he played eight songs off the new record; nobody had heard these songs before. When I look at that photograph, it reminds of the moment I was looking through the camera and taking that photo. I remember it being the point in my career when I thought, “How did I end up in Bruce Springsteen’s house making this film and taking these photographs.” 

Of all the concerts you’ve been to, which sticks out as most epic of all?

Hmmm. The ones that come to my mind immediately as I start to run through my head are some early Radiohead shows that were really spiritual experiences. It brought all of the things that I love about music together. It was rock and roll but it was something unexpected, and then you’ve got Thom’s voice and Johnny’s guitar playing. Everything just locks in and it’s pretty incredible. I also have been lucky enough to be in some really intimate settings. I remember photographing Johnny Cash and asking him to play something so that I could photograph it, and he played “Bird On A Wire” for me and my two assistants. 

  Who has been your greatest teacher?

My parents. My Dad passed away in March and my mom will be coming in a little later today. They were always open minded people who were always welcoming to everyone. There was never any discrimination against anyone for any reason–they were always looking after people, helping people. They gave way more than they received and were really content with that. Simple folks, hard working and also they were just really supportive of what I do, regardless of what it was going to be. My father quit school in the eighth grade and became his own business man–hanging wallpaper and painting houses–and they just really showed me that hard work pays off. Being nice to people pays off. They treated people fairly and never judged a book by its cover. 

What about creatively?

Creatively, I think I am really inspired by music and by the musicians. It’s great to collaborate with Tom Waits. He shows up to a shoot and he has all these toys and all these ideas that he’s bringing to the table. And I’ve got my ideas that I’m bringing to the table and its really a joy to get to do that. Im not a person who ever tries to make someone do something that they don’t want to.  And I really admire people like Bruce and the Pearl Jam guys who are constantly building a community and giving back to their community. What they do is incredible. I did a film on the Dave Matthews band recently about where they are from and what their charity does. The list of people that they have helped out is ridiculous. I couldn’t believe it. 300 charities or something like that. 

Your vintage Pontiac is eye-candy. Where’d you find it?

I always joke around and say Tim McGraw bought me that car. I got a great job shooting Tim McGraw and had just moved into our house and had a garage. I was online looking around on eBay . . . it had to be 12 years ago. And I saw that car while we were waiting for Tim to come out to soundcheck. I was like: “That’s the car!” It was trained it to the border because it was in Sesaqatchuan, and then flatbedded to my house. 

  Transparent will be open every day through April 2017 at The Asbury Hotel (210 Fifth Avenue). The exhibit can be accessed through an individual entrance on Kingsley Street. All furniture and artwork on display are available for purchase. Photographs range from $500-$5,000 (Asburyparknow.com/danny-clinch).

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“Annie Pierce might not have been the nicest girl, but she still didn’t deserve what happened to her. No one deserves that.”

→ Background

Teagan is one of those girls who just fits in with everyone. She was never popular, but neither was she unpopular. She wasn’t anything really. She just sort of drifted around from group to group, getting along with pretty much everyone. She was happy this way. She didn’t care about being popular or social status or anything like that, she was content with her drifter ways. She did, however, have one main best friend. Rhys Addison, whom she grew up next door to, across the street from the soon-to-be-locally-famous Pierce family.

Teagan never really hung around Annie and her friends too much, but she did know the girls and knew of Annie’s reputation. She definitely didn’t agree with the girl’s behavior but she never got involved. On occasions when she did speak to Annie, she was just as nice as she was to everyone. Partially because it’s her nature, and also partially because she didn’t want to be on Annie’s bad side. Teagan had heard stories of people who had got on Annie’s bad side, namely Austin Ramsey, who she managed to get expelled from high school, and the tale of poor Sarah Clarke, driven to attempt suicide.

→ Back to Baberton

She did attend Annie’s funeral, feeling like it was the respectful thing to do. She knows that Annie had a lot of people that didn’t like her, but she would never say anything about how she ‘had it coming’ as she doesn’t think anyone deserves to be killed and also feels like it would be rude and disrespectful to the family to say anything about the dead girl, even if she was pretty mean. Teagan has attended all the funerals (public ones anyway) of the victims in this town over the past few years. She just likes to be respectful. Treat others how she’d like to be treated.

→ What’s Her Secret?

The night of Evan Johnson’s (owner of the Green Dove) murder, Teagan was round the back of the pub taking photographs. She heard a commotion inside and tried to look through the window but it was late, the lights were off, and she couldn’t see much. She did, however, lift her camera up to the window and try to take a few pictures but she’s too terrified to look at the film now that she knows there was a murder. She keeps it stashed away under her mattress. She was even more terrified when someone called -A got in touch with her and started blackmailing her to take photos for them whenever they wanted to. She’s certain -A is the one who killed Evan but she doesn’t know what to do about it. She has her own secrets to keep safe, after all.

Uses her photography talent in photography to earn cash online. She posts “artistic” nude photographs of herself on a website for money. This is her only source of income as Teagan finds it incredibly difficult to get a job and can’t see herself sitting behind a desk or selling clothes.

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“Annie Pierce might not have been the nicest girl, but she still didn’t deserve what happened to her. No one deserves that.”

→ Background

Teagan is one of those girls who just fits in with everyone. She was never popular, but neither was she unpopular. She wasn’t anything really. She just sort of drifted around from group to group, getting along with pretty much everyone. She was happy this way. She didn’t care about being popular or social status or anything like that, she was content with her drifter ways. She did, however, have one main best friend. Rhys Addison, whom she grew up next door to, across the street from the soon-to-be-locally-famous Pierce family.

Teagan never really hung around Annie and her friends too much, but she did know the girls and knew of Annie’s reputation. She definitely didn’t agree with the girl’s behavior but she never got involved. On occasions when she did speak to Annie, she was just as nice as she was to everyone. Partially because it’s her nature, and also partially because she didn’t want to be on Annie’s bad side. Teagan had heard stories of people who had got on Annie’s bad side, namely Austin Ramsey, who she managed to get expelled from high school, and the tale of poor Sarah Clarke, driven to attempt suicide.

→ Back to Baberton

She did attend Annie’s funeral, feeling like it was the respectful thing to do. She knows that Annie had a lot of people that didn’t like her, but she would never say anything about how she ‘had it coming’ as she doesn’t think anyone deserves to be killed and also feels like it would be rude and disrespectful to the family to say anything about the dead girl, even if she was pretty mean. Teagan has attended all the funerals (public ones anyway) of the victims in this town over the past few years. She just likes to be respectful. Treat others how she’d like to be treated.

→ What’s Her Secret?

The night of Evan Johnson’s (owner of the Green Dove) murder, Teagan was round the back of the pub taking photographs. She heard a commotion inside and tried to look through the window but it was late, the lights were off, and she couldn’t see much. She did, however, lift her camera up to the window and try to take a few pictures but she’s too terrified to look at the film now that she knows there was a murder. She keeps it stashed away under her mattress. She was even more terrified when someone called -A got in touch with her and started blackmailing her to take photos for them whenever they wanted to. She’s certain -A is the one who killed Evan but she doesn’t know what to do about it. She has her own secrets to keep safe, after all.

Uses her photography talent in photography to earn cash online. She posts “artistic” nude photographs of herself on a website for money. This is her only source of income as Teagan finds it incredibly difficult to get a job and can’t see herself sitting behind a desk or selling clothes.

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“Annie Pierce might not have been the nicest girl, but she still didn’t deserve what happened to her. No one deserves that.”

→ Background

Teagan is one of those girls who just fits in with everyone. She was never popular, but neither was she unpopular. She wasn’t anything really. She just sort of drifted around from group to group, getting along with pretty much everyone. She was happy this way. She didn’t care about being popular or social status or anything like that, she was content with her drifter ways. She did, however, have one main best friend. Rhys Addison, whom she grew up next door to, across the street from the soon-to-be-locally-famous Pierce family.

Teagan never really hung around Annie and her friends too much, but she did know the girls and knew of Annie’s reputation. She definitely didn’t agree with the girl’s behavior but she never got involved. On occasions when she did speak to Annie, she was just as nice as she was to everyone. Partially because it’s her nature, and also partially because she didn’t want to be on Annie’s bad side. Teagan had heard stories of people who had got on Annie’s bad side, namely Austin Ramsey, who she managed to get expelled from high school, and the tale of poor Sarah Clarke, driven to attempt suicide.

→ Back to Baberton

She did attend Annie’s funeral, feeling like it was the respectful thing to do. She knows that Annie had a lot of people that didn’t like her, but she would never say anything about how she ‘had it coming’ as she doesn’t think anyone deserves to be killed and also feels like it would be rude and disrespectful to the family to say anything about the dead girl, even if she was pretty mean. Teagan has attended all the funerals (public ones anyway) of the victims in this town over the past few years. She just likes to be respectful. Treat others how she’d like to be treated.

→ What’s Her Secret?

The night of Evan Johnson’s (owner of the Green Dove) murder, Teagan was round the back of the pub taking photographs. She heard a commotion inside and tried to look through the window but it was late, the lights were off, and she couldn’t see much. She did, however, lift her camera up to the window and try to take a few pictures but she’s too terrified to look at the film now that she knows there was a murder. She keeps it stashed away under her mattress. She was even more terrified when someone called -A got in touch with her and started blackmailing her to take photos for them whenever they wanted to. She’s certain -A is the one who killed Evan but she doesn’t know what to do about it. She has her own secrets to keep safe, after all.

Uses her photography talent in photography to earn cash online. She posts “artistic” nude photographs of herself on a website for money. This is her only source of income as Teagan finds it incredibly difficult to get a job and can’t see herself sitting behind a desk or selling clothes.

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♠ Teagan Bradley  is 27 years old and is often confused with Rose McIver. She is Open.

“Annie Pierce might not have been the nicest girl, but she still didn’t deserve what happened to her. No one deserves that.”

→ Background

Teagan is one of those girls who just fits in with everyone. She was never popular, but neither was she unpopular. She wasn’t anything really. She just sort of drifted around from group to group, getting along with pretty much everyone. She was happy this way. She didn’t care about being popular or social status or anything like that, she was content with her drifter ways. She did, however, have one main best friend. Rhys Addison, whom she grew up next door to, across the street from the soon-to-be-locally-famous Pierce family.

Teagan never really hung around Annie and her friends too much, but she did know the girls and knew of Annie’s reputation. She definitely didn’t agree with the girl’s behavior but she never got involved. On occasions when she did speak to Annie, she was just as nice as she was to everyone. Partially because it’s her nature, and also partially because she didn’t want to be on Annie’s bad side. Teagan had heard stories of people who had got on Annie’s bad side, namely Austin Ramsey, who she managed to get expelled from high school, and the tale of poor Sarah Clarke, driven to attempt suicide.

→ Back to Baberton

She did attend Annie’s funeral, feeling like it was the respectful thing to do. She knows that Annie had a lot of people that didn’t like her, but she would never say anything about how she ‘had it coming’ as she doesn’t think anyone deserves to be killed and also feels like it would be rude and disrespectful to the family to say anything about the dead girl, even if she was pretty mean. Teagan has attended all the funerals (public ones anyway) of the victims in this town over the past few years. She just likes to be respectful. Treat others how she’d like to be treated.

→ What’s Her Secret?

The night of Evan Johnson’s (owner of the Green Dove) murder, Teagan was round the back of the pub taking photographs. She heard a commotion inside and tried to look through the window but it was late, the lights were off, and she couldn’t see much. She did, however, lift her camera up to the window and try to take a few pictures but she’s too terrified to look at the film now that she knows there was a murder. She keeps it stashed away under her mattress. She was even more terrified when someone called -A got in touch with her and started blackmailing her to take photos for them whenever they wanted to. She’s certain -A is the one who killed Evan but she doesn’t know what to do about it. She has her own secrets to keep safe, after all.

Uses her photography talent in photography to earn cash online. She posts “artistic” nude photographs of herself on a website for money. This is her only source of income as Teagan finds it incredibly difficult to get a job and can’t see herself sitting behind a desk or selling clothes.

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♠ Teagan Bradley  is 27 years old and is often confused with Rose McIver. She is Open.

“Annie Pierce might not have been the nicest girl, but she still didn’t deserve what happened to her. No one deserves that.”

→ Background

Teagan is one of those girls who just fits in with everyone. She was never popular, but neither was she unpopular. She wasn’t anything really. She just sort of drifted around from group to group, getting along with pretty much everyone. She was happy this way. She didn’t care about being popular or social status or anything like that, she was content with her drifter ways. She did, however, have one main best friend. Rhys Addison, whom she grew up next door to, across the street from the soon-to-be-locally-famous Pierce family.

Teagan never really hung around Annie and her friends too much, but she did know the girls and knew of Annie’s reputation. She definitely didn’t agree with the girl’s behavior but she never got involved. On occasions when she did speak to Annie, she was just as nice as she was to everyone. Partially because it’s her nature, and also partially because she didn’t want to be on Annie’s bad side. Teagan had heard stories of people who had got on Annie’s bad side, namely Austin Ramsey, who she managed to get expelled from high school, and the tale of poor Sarah Clarke, driven to attempt suicide.

→ Back to Baberton

She did attend Annie’s funeral, feeling like it was the respectful thing to do. She knows that Annie had a lot of people that didn��t like her, but she would never say anything about how she ‘had it coming’ as she doesn’t think anyone deserves to be killed and also feels like it would be rude and disrespectful to the family to say anything about the dead girl, even if she was pretty mean. Teagan has attended all the funerals (public ones anyway) of the victims in this town over the past few years. She just likes to be respectful. Treat others how she’d like to be treated.

→ What’s Her Secret?

The night of Evan Johnson’s (owner of the Green Dove) murder, Teagan was round the back of the pub taking photographs. She heard a commotion inside and tried to look through the window but it was late, the lights were off, and she couldn’t see much. She did, however, lift her camera up to the window and try to take a few pictures but she’s too terrified to look at the film now that she knows there was a murder. She keeps it stashed away under her mattress. She was even more terrified when someone called -A got in touch with her and started blackmailing her to take photos for them whenever they wanted to. She’s certain -A is the one who killed Evan but she doesn’t know what to do about it. She has her own secrets to keep safe, after all.

Uses her photography talent in photography to earn cash online. She posts “artistic” nude photographs of herself on a website for money. This is her only source of income as Teagan finds it incredibly difficult to get a job and can’t see herself sitting behind a desk or selling clothes.

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♠ Teagan Bradley  is 27 years old and is often confused with Rose McIver. She is Open.

“Annie Pierce might not have been the nicest girl, but she still didn’t deserve what happened to her. No one deserves that.”

→ Background

Teagan is one of those girls who just fits in with everyone. She was never popular, but neither was she unpopular. She wasn’t anything really. She just sort of drifted around from group to group, getting along with pretty much everyone. She was happy this way. She didn’t care about being popular or social status or anything like that, she was content with her drifter ways. She did, however, have one main best friend. Rhys Addison, whom she grew up next door to, across the street from the soon-to-be-locally-famous Pierce family.

Teagan never really hung around Annie and her friends too much, but she did know the girls and knew of Annie’s reputation. She definitely didn’t agree with the girl’s behavior but she never got involved. On occasions when she did speak to Annie, she was just as nice as she was to everyone. Partially because it’s her nature, and also partially because she didn’t want to be on Annie’s bad side. Teagan had heard stories of people who had got on Annie’s bad side, namely Austin Ramsey, who she managed to get expelled from high school, and the tale of poor Sarah Clarke, driven to attempt suicide.

→ Back to Baberton

She did attend Annie’s funeral, feeling like it was the respectful thing to do. She knows that Annie had a lot of people that didn’t like her, but she would never say anything about how she ‘had it coming’ as she doesn’t think anyone deserves to be killed and also feels like it would be rude and disrespectful to the family to say anything about the dead girl, even if she was pretty mean. Teagan has attended all the funerals (public ones anyway) of the victims in this town over the past few years. She just likes to be respectful. Treat others how she’d like to be treated.

→ What’s Her Secret?

The night of Evan Johnson’s (owner of the Green Dove) murder, Teagan was round the back of the pub taking photographs. She heard a commotion inside and tried to look through the window but it was late, the lights were off, and she couldn’t see much. She did, however, lift her camera up to the window and try to take a few pictures but she’s too terrified to look at the film now that she knows there was a murder. She keeps it stashed away under her mattress. She was even more terrified when someone called -A got in touch with her and started blackmailing her to take photos for them whenever they wanted to. She’s certain -A is the one who killed Evan but she doesn’t know what to do about it. She has her own secrets to keep safe, after all.

Uses her photography talent in photography to earn cash online. She posts “artistic” nude photographs of herself on a website for money. This is her only source of income as Teagan finds it incredibly difficult to get a job and can’t see herself sitting behind a desk or selling clothes.

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♠ Teagan Bradley  is 27 years old and is often confused with Rose McIver. She is Open.

“Annie Pierce might not have been the nicest girl, but she still didn’t deserve what happened to her. No one deserves that.”

→ Background

Teagan is one of those girls who just fits in with everyone. She was never popular, but neither was she unpopular. She wasn’t anything really. She just sort of drifted around from group to group, getting along with pretty much everyone. She was happy this way. She didn’t care about being popular or social status or anything like that, she was content with her drifter ways. She did, however, have one main best friend. Rhys Addison, whom she grew up next door to, across the street from the soon-to-be-locally-famous Pierce family.

Teagan never really hung around Annie and her friends too much, but she did know the girls and knew of Annie’s reputation. She definitely didn’t agree with the girl’s behavior but she never got involved. On occasions when she did speak to Annie, she was just as nice as she was to everyone. Partially because it’s her nature, and also partially because she didn’t want to be on Annie’s bad side. Teagan had heard stories of people who had got on Annie’s bad side, namely Austin Ramsey, who she managed to get expelled from high school, and the tale of poor Sarah Clarke, driven to attempt suicide.

→ Back to Baberton

She did attend Annie’s funeral, feeling like it was the respectful thing to do. She knows that Annie had a lot of people that didn’t like her, but she would never say anything about how she ‘had it coming’ as she doesn’t think anyone deserves to be killed and also feels like it would be rude and disrespectful to the family to say anything about the dead girl, even if she was pretty mean. Teagan has attended all the funerals (public ones anyway) of the victims in this town over the past few years. She just likes to be respectful. Treat others how she’d like to be treated.

→ What’s Her Secret?

The night of Evan Johnson’s (owner of the Green Dove) murder, Teagan was round the back of the pub taking photographs. She heard a commotion inside and tried to look through the window but it was late, the lights were off, and she couldn’t see much. She did, however, lift her camera up to the window and try to take a few pictures but she’s too terrified to look at the film now that she knows there was a murder. She keeps it stashed away under her mattress. She was even more terrified when someone called -A got in touch with her and started blackmailing her to take photos for them whenever they wanted to. She’s certain -A is the one who killed Evan but she doesn’t know what to do about it. She has her own secrets to keep safe, after all.

Uses her photography talent in photography to earn cash online. She posts “artistic” nude photographs of herself on a website for money. This is her only source of income as Teagan finds it incredibly difficult to get a job and can’t see herself sitting behind a desk or selling clothes.

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♠ Teagan Bradley  is 27 years old and is often confused with Rose McIver. She is Open.

“Annie Pierce might not have been the nicest girl, but she still didn’t deserve what happened to her. No one deserves that.”

→ Background

Teagan is one of those girls who just fits in with everyone. She was never popular, but neither was she unpopular. She wasn’t anything really. She just sort of drifted around from group to group, getting along with pretty much everyone. She was happy this way. She didn’t care about being popular or social status or anything like that, she was content with her drifter ways. She did, however, have one main best friend. Rhys Addison, whom she grew up next door to, across the street from the soon-to-be-locally-famous Pierce family.

Teagan never really hung around Annie and her friends too much, but she did know the girls and knew of Annie’s reputation. She definitely didn’t agree with the girl’s behavior but she never got involved. On occasions when she did speak to Annie, she was just as nice as she was to everyone. Partially because it’s her nature, and also partially because she didn’t want to be on Annie’s bad side. Teagan had heard stories of people who had got on Annie’s bad side, namely Austin Ramsey, who she managed to get expelled from high school, and the tale of poor Sarah Clarke, driven to attempt suicide.

→ Back to Baberton

She did attend Annie’s funeral, feeling like it was the respectful thing to do. She knows that Annie had a lot of people that didn’t like her, but she would never say anything about how she ‘had it coming’ as she doesn’t think anyone deserves to be killed and also feels like it would be rude and disrespectful to the family to say anything about the dead girl, even if she was pretty mean. Teagan has attended all the funerals (public ones anyway) of the victims in this town over the past few years. She just likes to be respectful. Treat others how she’d like to be treated.

→ What’s Her Secret?

The night of Evan Johnson’s (owner of the Green Dove) murder, Teagan was round the back of the pub taking photographs. She heard a commotion inside and tried to look through the window but it was late, the lights were off, and she couldn’t see much. She did, however, lift her camera up to the window and try to take a few pictures but she’s too terrified to look at the film now that she knows there was a murder. She keeps it stashed away under her mattress. She was even more terrified when someone called -A got in touch with her and started blackmailing her to take photos for them whenever they wanted to. She’s certain -A is the one who killed Evan but she doesn’t know what to do about it. She has her own secrets to keep safe, after all.

Uses her photography talent in photography to earn cash online. She posts “artistic” nude photographs of herself on a website for money. This is her only source of income as Teagan finds it incredibly difficult to get a job and can’t see herself sitting behind a desk or selling clothes.

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♠ Teagan Bradley  is 27 years old and is often confused with Rose McIver. She is Open.

“Annie Pierce might not have been the nicest girl, but she still didn’t deserve what happened to her. No one deserves that.”

→ Background

Teagan is one of those girls who just fits in with everyone. She was never popular, but neither was she unpopular. She wasn’t anything really. She just sort of drifted around from group to group, getting along with pretty much everyone. She was happy this way. She didn’t care about being popular or social status or anything like that, she was content with her drifter ways. She did, however, have one main best friend. Rhys Addison, whom she grew up next door to, across the street from the soon-to-be-locally-famous Pierce family.

Teagan never really hung around Annie and her friends too much, but she did know the girls and knew of Annie’s reputation. She definitely didn’t agree with the girl’s behavior but she never got involved. On occasions when she did speak to Annie, she was just as nice as she was to everyone. Partially because it’s her nature, and also partially because she didn’t want to be on Annie’s bad side. Teagan had heard stories of people who had got on Annie’s bad side, namely Austin Ramsey, who she managed to get expelled from high school, and the tale of poor Sarah Clarke, driven to attempt suicide.

→ Back to Baberton

She did attend Annie’s funeral, feeling like it was the respectful thing to do. She knows that Annie had a lot of people that didn’t like her, but she would never say anything about how she ‘had it coming’ as she doesn’t think anyone deserves to be killed and also feels like it would be rude and disrespectful to the family to say anything about the dead girl, even if she was pretty mean. Teagan has attended all the funerals (public ones anyway) of the victims in this town over the past few years. She just likes to be respectful. Treat others how she’d like to be treated.

→ What’s Her Secret?

The night of Evan Johnson’s (owner of the Green Dove) murder, Teagan was round the back of the pub taking photographs. She heard a commotion inside and tried to look through the window but it was late, the lights were off, and she couldn’t see much. She did, however, lift her camera up to the window and try to take a few pictures but she’s too terrified to look at the film now that she knows there was a murder. She keeps it stashed away under her mattress. She was even more terrified when someone called -A got in touch with her and started blackmailing her to take photos for them whenever they wanted to. She’s certain -A is the one who killed Evan but she doesn’t know what to do about it. She has her own secrets to keep safe, after all.

Uses her photography talent in photography to earn cash online. She posts “artistic” nude photographs of herself on a website for money. This is her only source of income as Teagan finds it incredibly difficult to get a job and can’t see herself sitting behind a desk or selling clothes.

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