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Welcome to Dun & Dunn. I'm Alicia, your hostess on this podcast journey, All Things Dominic

Dunn, where nothing is linear and everything

is connected. Thank you for joining me on this last Sunday of the month with a special presentation.

We are coming out today and spending a little time with debutants. We are going to meet many of these white-gowned and white-gloved beauties on both sides

of the pond in the coming months, and I thought it might be fun, helpful, cool, interesting for our

investigation to give a little bit of insight into this long-held tradition, highly guided by rules

and only invited into by association.

It is a fertile playground of high society hijinks for centuries.

Tis the damn season, friends. It's time for debutants.

Before we begin, I do have some thanks to give to our newest supporters over at the

Dun & Done Patreon community, the most amazing group over there getting ad-free and early episodes,

along with weekly Not Done Yet bonus episodes.

Thank you so, so much to Rory W. Rayana J. and Rachel C. for your support. Thanks to all y'all for your kind reviews, for your nice emails, and for coming back to listen.

We will be back this Saturday, first Saturday of the month, with a whole new series series for December where we will be meeting a legendary

debutante from across the pond with a storied history all her own. Until then, please enjoy this little

white-gloved primer on debutants. What is it to Deb? What's the history of the tradition? How did it become? Who were some of the

most famous ones? Let's investigate.

Let's investigate. Tis the damn season, at least for us to talk about debutants, although the season

traditionally for Debs is more like spring to summer, at least in its origin.

But like all traditions, the framework makes some shifts through time, from the sacred to the

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