The women on the periphery knew just how far back they must stay.” Perhaps a secret of the success of our friendship is that we’ve never crossed the line into the other’s more serious relationships, especially with James, whom I knew but kept a careful distance from. I am reminded of a line in her memoir of their Carnegie Hall meeting: “Once I laid eyes on James, a sense of possession overtook me, as if a dog fence of little white flags had sprung out of the ground around him. “Well, my real pain is emotional and often centered around James,” she replies. “They’ll soon have an app where you’ll have a choice of knee shapes and you’d be able to change their color or the song you’d like them to sing.” Like “Haven’t Got Time for the Pain”? I ask. “Both of my knees need to be replaced with pearls!” she says. She’s been dealing with a broken hip as well as two painful knee joints. AaronĬarly winces and shifts her body on the sofa as her affectionate Cavapoo, Aja, jumps onto her legs. As we looked alike in profile and both had long legs, which we liked to curl up beneath ourselves when gossiping on a sofa, we soon had our moniker. Carly and James Taylor were there, and she and I hit it off instantly. One evening while the boys were recording in a studio downtown, Earl thought I might prefer to come to a party he was hosting. I was spending time with Mick Jagger and Ronnie Wood at the Plaza hotel in New York, around the corner from Earl’s apartment. I’ve known Carly since the mid-’70s, back when we were nicknamed “the Bookends” by one of our more eloquent rock ’n’ roll friends, the Rolling Stones’ producer Earl McGrath. “No longer!” I commiserate about our rebellious bodies, confiding that I’m finding it harder to get out of a bath. “Remember when I went upstairs two at a time?” she jokes. Carly Simon cautiously descends the spiral staircase of her Martha’s Vineyard home as her four dogs bark and leap enthusiastically.
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