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There were no sleazy secretaries sleeping with large and in-charge corporate CEOs at Friday night’s fundraiser. Just classy, well-dressed people schmoozing with one another in a fancy library. Office Romance may have been the theme for the threewalls’ spring fundraiser and auction, much of the love spread around was for the arts. With a live auction of work donated by local artists and a slew of bands set to before later in the evening, art love was in the air. But it also felt like a giant episode of Mad Men with men and women dressed for the 1950s—some men sporting typewriters (yes, typewriters) were punching up letters and cigarette girls walked around passing out various smoking paraphernalia. If you weren’t on the library’s catwalk or climbing up the spiral staircases, you were most likely watching the lively auctioneer drumming up high bids for the more contemporary pieces for sale. The event had all the makings of a successful night, with the last auction piece going way out of my college budget. Don Draper and his partners at Sterling Cooper Draper Pryce would be proud.









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