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"I hope she'll be a fool," her mother once said. "That's the best thing a girl can be in this world, a beautiful little fool."

But Pamela Buchanan was never a fool.
In time, the glamour that was later called "the Roaring 20's" quickly corroded away into the dull grey of the Great Depression.
"WALL ST. IN PANIC AS STOCKS CRASH" was the headline of the October 24th, 1929 edition of the "Brooklyn Daily Eagle.
Shortly after that, everything went to hell.
Tom Buchanan was tried and found to be guilty of Embezzlement, and was shot in the head as he left the courthouse.
Pamela would remember decades later when one morning when she went to awaken her morphine-addict of a mother only to be greeted with Daisy's limp corpse dangling from a scarf in her bedroom.
"Pfft. The sorry whore probably hung herself when she discovered her precious riches were no more." people would say behind her back at the funeral.
Later, she went to live with her Uncle Nick, who had just published his book on "The Great Jay Gatsby" while struggling with mood swings when not mildly irritable.
He died of alcohol poisoning when she was sixteen.

Pamela Buchanan had seen too much death to be considered a fool.
In 1939, the "Valley of Ashes" came the site of a world's fair when it was turned into Flushing Meadow Park
As a young woman, Pamela joined millions of women who eventually became known as "Riveters" when the "The War to End All Wars" became untrue when Adolf Hitler invaded Poland, and when the Japanese bombed Pearl Harbor.
While she was building planes, someone else tore down Gatsby's Mansion.

The years rolled on long after her mother's statement became obsolete, and Pamela herself oversaw two film adaptations of her "Uncle Nick"'s work.
Pamela Buchanan was never a fool, and she sure as hell didn't die as one.