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It takes place in
the '90s because it's

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called, "You in Palazzo Pants."

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Do you remember palazzo pants?

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Raise your hand if you
remember palazzo pants.

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They're going to come
back, so get ready.

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The skinny jean, it's out.

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We really have to-- we
have to liberate the legs.

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Palazzo pants lets the air in.

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So, this is "You
and Palazzo Pants."

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So this is-- the
"you" is in her 20s.

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You agree to meet him
in one of those cafes

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you imagined yourself
writing in if you could

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afford to live in that city.

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He was also a writer,
but older, and you wanted

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to know how to get published.

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Slip a picture of yourself in
with your poems, he advised.

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As in, toss your shiny coin into
the fountain, heads or tails,

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before it tarnishes.

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You didn't tell him of the
internship you once had,

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in which the only
thing that stood

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between the slush pile
and the top editor

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was you in palazzo pants.

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And that the top
editor, your boss,

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was a tall ash-blond woman
who thought your Post-it notes

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on manuscripts brilliant.

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You didn't tell him this
because you have only

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thought of it now,
because at the time,

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you probably flirted
like a knee that

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responds to a little hammer.

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When you told your therapist
about a hand that slid down

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your back as you fixed
sentences, she asked, well,

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were you at least flattered?

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And in both cases, yes.

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But, like a bouquet
of flowers, it's

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hard to know what to say
when it arrives on your desk

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without a card.

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The other secretaries
expect you to be excited.

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They hover around
your desk clucking,

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we never get anything.

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We're so jealous.

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Still, the water will soon turn
murky and the flowers stink.

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And you are left with the burden
of taking the whole thing out

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of the building.

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Now, when you imagine
your own poems arriving

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with a picture of
yourself back then,

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you want to write a
note in curvy pink.

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Tell them how beautiful they
are, how worthy of an audience.

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