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Back when the "name it, claim it" trend was blowing up on social media, my boyfriend Richard Grant asked me, "Anything you've got your eye on?" I practically bounced off the couch. "A Mini Cooper. I've wanted one for three years. The second I get behind the wheel, I'm posting: 'name it, claim it'." He patted me on the head without a word. I figured he was planning a surprise. The next day, his assistant Emily Hart posted a photo of a top-trim Mini Cooper with the caption: [Mentioned wanting a Mini yesterday, and my boss bought it today.] Richard, who never left comments on social media, made an exception under her post: [You name it, you claim it.] Right then, the hurt gave way to clarity. It wasn't that he didn't know how to spoil someone. He chose not to spoil me. Fair enough. From now on, whatever I wanted, I'd claim on my own dime.