The Swans of Fifth Avenue
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The nickname “True Heart” represents Babe Paley’s love for Truman Capote. Babe's nickname for Truman is doubly ironic in that although he was not true to her and thereby broke her heart, he did write the truth about the lives of the Swans. He was a true heart but only to himself and his readers.