Linda Tessner
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She arranged for me to have my hair done.
She arranged for me to have my makeup done.
She arranged for me to have a pearl choker made.
She actually marched me, like she just put me in the car with her driver and she would come along with her little dog.
And there was a jewelry store.
She goes, I just know, I know just where I need to take you for a pearl choker.
I was kind of bedazzled with the opportunity of going to this incredibly glamorous dinner party at the Met.
Like, who would ever think that was going to happen when I moved to Maryhill Museum in 1983?
Somebody once laughed, like, oh, Linda, you're Susan's little mannequin.
Like, she's dressing you.
She had opinions about how I looked.
And Eliza do a little way.
Like, I can teach you how to be chic.
I'm sure she was naturally thin.
So staying in that body that I had in Paris and New York was really hard and took a lot of time.