Okay, this is the first question I have. Okay, where are we?

Oh, I mean, I have to talk about great gardens. Yes.

That's my friend, the fashion designer Liz Lang, at Gray Gardens, for a state in East Hampton,

which was made famous by the Maisel's brother's iconic documentary. The movie tells the story

of Big Edie and Little Edie, two eccentric relatives of Jacqueline Kennedy who once lived in the house.

Women, with a singular sense of style, and a misguided belief that they are still basking in the

glow of Camelot, and the truth is anything but, do you, on the regular stop yourself and be like,

oh my god, it's great gardens? You know, I don't. I mean, I'm very aware of the documentary,

but I also just really love the house. I grew up going out to East Hampton. The houses that I

remember from my childhood looked like this house. The fact that it's great gardens is just like

almost the icing on the cake. The house is 10,000 square feet with a pool and a tennis court

and acres of beautiful gardens all on the edge of the Atlantic Ocean. Liz has always identified

as rich. When I was growing up, I thought that we were the richest family in the United States,

and it felt impossible that it would change absolutely impossible.

But just like the women in the movie, Grey Gardens, what Liz expected from life and what her

life turned out to be, are two very different things. I'm Ariel Levy and this is the just enough family.

If I were to say to my mother, are we rich, she'd say we're comfortable. But our private plane was a

727. We had a very large helicopter that would retake to the plane. Both my parents had their own

car and driver. We had a very large apartment. We had a house to East Hampton. We had a different

country house in Bedford. We had a ski house in Aspen. It was just very like, it was unusual.

All this wealth was thanks to Liz's uncle, Saul Steinberg, who made a fortune in the 60s, 70s,

and 80s as a corporate rater with help from his little brother Bob, Liz's father.

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