The writer was struck by the references in the Washington Post story about Mitt Romney to a place where "privilege and wealth ran rampant," where students "lived and breathed an inflated sense of importance" that was part of the school's history and part of the isolation of Bloomfield Hills.

Forty years later, he says,  Cranbrook was a remarkably different place, a school where the "daughters of Fortune 500 CEOs mingled with the sons of industrial workers and immigrants."

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