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Question #4 from Ashley (Want to know what this is about? Read this post):

When you were a kid, who did you want to be? (i.e. a hero, some character from a TV show or book, person you knew, etc.)

I asked for a new question, but Ashley’s ignoring me. I can’t answer this because I have severe memory problems sometimes. I can memorize a library of song lyrics, special dates, and phone numbers, but I think that’s about it. I was going to write more, but I forgot what I was going to say…

Annie’s answer:
You know, the only time I remember wanting to be someone else was when I was five years old. My parents and I had just moved to St. Louis from China and I had just started preschool. We were incredibly poor back then, in fact we lived in the ghetto and could barely afford to buy enough food, but that’s another story altogether.

I don’t think as a child I really knew that we were poor but I did feel sad when I saw the things that other children had. There was this one girl in my class, who was incidentally the principal’s daughter, and she had everything. I remember one day she came to school with this beautiful doll. In fact, I can still visualize it pretty clearly. It wasn’t an average off the counter doll from Toys R Us, it looked like something pristine passed down to her from her great grandmother, it being dressed in exquisite silks and laces. I just remember thinking, “Wow, it must be wonderful to be her.”

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