We asked 15 famous people to tell us about the one thing they bought when they hit the big time and got their first paycheck — the gift they dreamt of getting themselves one day and finally did. Here, author Ottessa Moshfegh tells us about the time she took her dad to a courtside Celtics game. Find more celebrity splurges here.
I can’t say I feel that I’ve hit the big time, but when I flew to Boston and took my dad to a Celtics game at the TD Garden during COVID I felt like I’d achieved something. It was really meaningful to me, because my dad has been a Celtics fan since he moved to Boston the year I was born and because we’d been apart for a very long time, during which he had been in strict quarantine and getting chemo.
I got us really good seats, and the arena was mostly empty. Dad bought me a pretzel and a Diet Coke. It was such a perfect night. For the price of the tickets, I could have paid my mortgage or flown to Japan. But it felt like it might be the only time I would sit courtside with my dad and watch our home team. We lost to the Phoenix Suns, but it was totally worth it.
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