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"textContent": "\n\n\n\n##### Cambridge’s most infamous party girl tips her hat to Dafydd Jones, the society photographer whose latest book captures more than 40 years of the school’s hedonistic May Balls\n\nBy Caroline Calloway\n\nIf I could tell you one thing: Don’t be jealous. Don’t let this book make you feel like your life is boring. Like all the best parties are happening without you.\n\nFirst of all, Dafydd and I aren’t always invited to the parties we make art about, but more on that fascinating dynamic later! What I want you to know up front and above all else is that, yes, truly— _just like you_ —I was once sick to my fucking guts with envy when I thumbed through the exquisite Oxford-ball photography of British living legend Dafydd Jones. Are all the better parties always in a different place? A different time? Should I have been born 30 years earlier? Seventy? A century? Two?! READ ON",
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