Liz Smith | 07/07/2008 12:00 am

Liz Smith: Once Wet Behind the Ears

In response to: If you could, what decade would you like to repeat? Would you do it all the same?

I don’t particularly want to relive anything, but if I have to choose I would say New York City in the ’50s when I first arrived green and eager. It was just five years after World War II and the city was glorious and the world was my exotic oyster.

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Ha! I was in NYC in the 50s with a man I LOVED—until I became aware years later he was dishonest, how really sad—and he showed me around. For a long weekend. Nothing like being green to add glitter to all you see. Plus, this man had a sparkling dry sense of humor. Imagine that: youth; an adored man; and humor. What else is there? (Yeah, I know: honesty.)

By Shooz on 07/07/2008 4:08 pm

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Ms. Liz, I read your column when I was a teenager and when the local paper dropped it when I was in my 20’s I was disappointed. Years later I found it on the internet and it felt as if I was back with a dear friend. Thanks for sharing the decades with us.

By Dab-a- do on 07/07/2008 6:44 pm

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when i took my healthy, confident self to detroit in my twenties, i was wet behind the ears. now i’m much chastened and wiser and i sweat behind my ears.

By mary lou s on 07/08/2008 1:20 pm