Of course, I later learned things I could have never recalled: that by the time Havens riveted the masses at Woodstock in 1969, assassinations had snuffed out the lives of the nation's most inspiring and transformative leaders.
Then it suddenly struck me again that I've never recalled any acknowledgement of this fact during the myriad of discussions, I've read, listened to or seen regarding comparisons between the gay and civil rights movements.
"I discovered two salient facts that I in my naïveté had never known," she recalled last week over a corn muffin in the Washington Square Diner near New York University.
"When I was with Andy, I would notice things I had never noticed," he recalls.
A. I have been to that restaurant you are talking about, I think, though even sitting in a celebrity hellhole packed with media clowns eating gummy salmon with puréed ramps, I have never fondly recalled ringing the Bell on the Interstate or anywhere else.
Ms. Schlossbach, 45, had never cooked anything, she recalled recently.
"I was very aware of the irony that had never been depicted," he recalled.
"I was in costumes I had never worn before," she recalled, "and in understudy rehearsals you never have the spotlight on you or the entire orchestra behind you.
This admirer, they recalled, had never watched their hit BBC show "Little Britain," but had seen the pair on Jay Leno's show the night before, adored their accents, and told them, "I love Brit humor".
Though they had never been introduced, Ms. Jacobson recalled a tournament in Atlanta in 2004 when she caught a glimpse of a fencer with the name Bâby sewn onto the back of his jacket.
