Happy holidays, everyone. It's Mary. This week, we are rebroadcasting episodes that stuck with us,

even in this year when the news cycle could flip itself on its head between breakfast and lunchtime.

Today, we're going to remember Ruth Bader Ginsburg. She died in September at 87 years old.

And back then, the person I most wanted to process the news with

was Dahlia Lithwick. Dahlia Lithwick has covered the Supreme Court and watched Ruth Bader

Ginsburg for a long time now. But it wasn't until a few years back, she realized Ruth Bader Ginsburg was watching her, too.

She said she liked reading me because I was spicy.

That was the very first note I got, which was that she had said, I like reading that girl.

She's spicy.

There are a lot of ways to remember Ruth Bader Ginsburg's legacy. She was a feminist, a scholar, a jurist.

But Dahlia says she was also polite, old school.

Ginsburg was known for sending these notes out on Supreme Court stationary.

She sent one to a little girl who dressed up like her for her school's superhero day.

She sent another to a writer and fan who'd invited RBG to her wedding on a lark. But it wasn't just thank you notes.

The thing she was most famous for, I think, was like you'd submit your wedding vows. Jeff Rosen tells

this story. But so many people tell the story of submitting the draft of their wedding voughs two in the morning. And she'd edit it?

Yeah, you get back. Jeff's version of the story is very funny that, you know, you just are sending in pro forma.

Like, this is what we've agreed to do. Will you just read this? And two in the morning, getting back handwritten like,

this is a little retrograde.

Don't like this. Maybe rethink this.

Editing someone's wedding vows for them, it reveals a precision that was trademark Ginsburg.

There was this famous story where when she argued a case at the Supreme Court, Justice Blackman used to write, give people letter grades, the oral advocates when he was on the bench.

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