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I would accept that Edie Sedgwick was a pretty looking girl and all that, but the real person behind all the glamour had a way too disturbed personality to have any sort of strong influence on anything. Brutally caned by her dad as a youngster,the more than dubious sexual activity within her family, and the mental health issues that she went through, not to mention the heavy abuse of drugs that turned her into a hysterical human being, all made sure that she departed pretty soon from this world with little left for anyone to hang on to apart from her pretty face. There's two anedoctes about her that I like and go on to show how sad a person she was:
-The first one was one told by Sterling Morrison of when one day they went shopping in a limousine around Manhattan and Edie bought a pair of shoes that she couldn't keep her mouth shut about how lovely they were for an hour, till she pulled one of the car's windows down and chucked them out.
-The second is about Ondine being her nurse when she was at her worst He'd be sleeping by the lake in Central Park and he'd get up every morning, go to her apartment and inject into her doses of whatever drugs she was on at the time. All this while she was constantly crying, screaming and complaining about her inheritance quickly disappearing.
I'd hardly call that a happy life.
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