Elizabeth Sweetheart, also known as the Green Lady of Brooklyn, is a woman known for her obsession with the color Green.

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In college, she studied with the Canadian painter Alex Colville.

In 1964, she hitchhiked to New York City to establish herself as an artist and found work creating prints in the garment industry.

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Elizabeth lives in Brooklyn, New York.

Her husband and her have been married for 51 years.

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Elizabeth grew up in Nova Scotia.

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Elizabeth also has a green thumb and a backyard garden that explodes with growth in the summer, from fig trees and tomatoes to eggplants and herbs.

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Elizabeth has been "green" for at least 20 years.

She has met with Ralph Lauren.

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One of the things that most influenced her transition to being green was the reaction she would get when she walked her golden retriever Dylan, who died about two years ago, by the school near her home.

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'Dylan and I would go walking and they loved the green and they loved Dylan.

So every morning we would talk and chat and the children loved the green, so it continued.'^[5]

She buys most of her garments in other colors and dyes them green.

She constantly keeps a pot of dye handy for the procedures.

Elizabeth claims that she can only wear green clothing.

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Obsessive compulsive disorder