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Yes, the rumors are trueā¦ā¦Iām actually coming home to Colorado for the summer. Maybe it wonāt be so bad. After all, Iāve got cocktails, shopping, and gab sessions with my girlfriends to look forward to. Plus time with my dysfunctional family. Yippee. Iām Helaina, by the way. Helaina Denner if youāve known me since junior high, like Hannah and Marti. Helaina Merrill if you know me from film school at NYU. See, I lead a bit of a double life: āstarvingā student when in Manhattan, daughter of privilege when in Denverā¦And it gets even betterā¦ā¦depending on your definition of ābetter.ā First off, Iāve picked this time to try and reconnect with my father. Which would be easier if weād ever had anything resembling a relationship to begin with. I guess this is one of the pitfalls of having a parent as rich Bill Gates and as accessible as the popeā¦Seriously, some of this stuff you cannot repeatā¦ā¦like what Iāll tell you about Owen, the adorable journalist I just met. Heās sweet, sincere, sexyā¦real soul mate material. But somethingās keeping me from letting him get too close. Whatās my problem, anyway? No need to answer: thatās what friends are for. Now, amid high-altitude parties in Aspen, bikini waxes gone mad, and caught-on-tape blackmail fodder, Iām about to find out exactly what one heiressās problems amount to in this crazy world. Just remember, whatever I discover is off the recordāfor the moment, at leastā¦