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TIL Daisy from The Great Gatsby is based on F. Scott Fitzgerald’s girlfriend, Ginevra King. She broke up with him saying “Poor boys shouldn’t think of marrying rich girls”. The last time they met she asked if someone in Gatsby was based on her. Fitzgerald replied “Which bitch do you think you are?”

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