a 2nd false memory

was with the polymath the other night at the block. while walking there to meet him, i had this sudden image of miranda de quiros looking very different from how i remember her.

we used to be neighbors and our parents knew each other and so i spent a lot of afternoons in her house after school. i must have been six. i remember she had one book with line drawings of 2 hairy people having sex. i also remember how she used to make ken do funny things to barbie, complete with dialogue and sound effects. it's pretty funny now but at the time, i was always a little scared of her.

when we were both in kindergarten, she was extremely tall for her age. she stood at four feet, eleven inches. in kindergarten! i think she was also already wearing a bra. in kindergarten! i am not making this up, i promise you. but by fourth grade, we had drifted apart. she was already firmly entrenched in the cool crowd by then, with other hormonally precocious girls at JASMS. also, by fourth grade, she had stopped growing. i think by the time we were in high school or college, she was still 4'11". she was also, uhm, a little less slender by then.

anyway...

so as i was walking to the block from my house to meet the polymath, i had this sudden image of miranda, smiling and walking and looking much thinner and really really hot. just that. a flash in my head of miranda de quiros as a hottie.

can someone please tell me if she really is thinner now? i hate to think that my mind is playing tricks on me again. i don't really watch the news, especially not abs-cbn. too depressing on so many different levels. i'd rather bury myself in sugar-free ice cream while watching egyptologists try to figure out if the mystery mummy in niagara falls is actually rameses the first.