Quotative "like"

[Alice Faber]

I forget who gave the paper on this at the ADS/LSA meeting last week, and
my program is at the lab. But there's a lovely example of quotative "like"
in tomorrow's NY Times Magazine Section, in an interview with Doris Kearns
Goodwin. Here's the context, with punctuation:

"Someone was talking to people who had watched me, and they were like,
She's the one with the normal hair. Which means that it was sometimes
sticking out."

The interview's on page 15.

I'm not sure exactly how old Goodwin is, but, she's old enough to have been
traumatized when the Dodgers left Brooklyn, which would make her at least
50.
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