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High life

The art of being a mistress

29 August 2020

9:00 AM

29 August 2020

9:00 AM

Gstaad

The jokes about keeping a mistress are old and I’ve yet to hear a truly funny one (‘The difference between a wife and a mistress is like day and night,’ and so on). Like many other good things, mistresses have fallen out of fashion, the closing pay gap between the sexes being one of the main reasons for their demise.

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