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The Concierge Who Sources Anything
The phone rings on a Tuesday. The client is in Munich and lands at Heathrow on Friday. The brief: a long weekend, no schedule, two people, one of whom is the client, one of whom the concierge has not previously met. The bill, including the markup, runs to the high five figures.
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