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A GIRL’S BEST FRIEND
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A GIRL’S BEST FRIEND
From the moment I saw her, I felt both awe1 and identification. I idolized her. She was likea living doll, but neither baby nor Barbie; though she was a real, elegant, grown- upwoman, she appeared pure and flawless, as if made of delicate lacquered porcelain2. I’dnever seen anyone like her—such a radiant, glamorous3, vulnerable, yet powerful being.
She was supernatural. I stood there staring, fascinated and frozen before the bright screenwhere she lived.
One evening I had been walking aimlessly down the hall in one of the many houses welived in. As I passed my mother’s dark little bedroom, I casually5 wandered in. I can’tremember whether I saw or heard her first, but I know something carried me into thatroom. The bedroom was lit only by the washed-out colors of the old TV facing the bed,where my mother was lying in silhouette6, watching a special about the life and death ofMarilyn Monroe.
I softly pushed open the bedroom door, walking in on the iconic scene fromGentlemen Prefer Blondes in which Marilyn sings “Diamonds Are a Girl’s Best Friend.”
She was the most beautiful person I had ever seen.
Her energy was like a fairy’s, but she looked like a goddess, swathed in a luxuriouselectric-pink silk gown and matching opera gloves, with diamonds of every size drippingfrom her ears and wrapped around her neck and wrists. The only bits of skin exposed wereher face, her shoulders, and her arms down to the elbow, yet I remember her flesh seemingso rich and creamy, glistening8 like homemade ice cream. Her hair was just a few shadeslighter, dazzling like finely spun9 gold. She was voluptuously10 shaped, with round, curvyhips, a small, cinched waist, proud, purposeful breasts, and arms that stretched wide andhugged close. She was
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