My Past Life Memory:  Ever since I was a little girl I would watch movies with my grandfather. He had a bunch of movies from the 30's-60's. I became fascinated with the old musicals. Soon I started watching I Love Lucy and became interested with Lucille Ball. I watched I Love Lucy over and over and started renting her movies. Soon, I was introduced to Judy Garland movies. Of course it started with The Wizard Of Oz but then I started watching Meet Me In St. Louis which is my favorite oldie.

It's weird because when I first watched it, I knew exactly what would happen, I knew the lines. With me watching all these old-elegant movies and musicals, everyone thought, "She just wants to become a singer or a movie star" but as I grew into my teen years I had absolutely no desire to be on stage, I had a desire to be behind the scenes like a producer or writer or fashion designer. I became obsessed with the 40-60's music. Usually teenagers in the 90's are into the hip hop, rap, country, pop and R&B. I guess I liked some of this music but I found myself listening to Judy Garland, Doris Day, Dean Martin, Frank Sinatra etc. I wished that I could go back in time and be with them. As a teenager I observed a lot. My family was a middle-class family living in a town far from Hollywood or New York where I longed to be. I did not just want to be famous and move to Hollywood or New York. I felt like I lived there before. I always felt like I was someone else and I have always felt connected with Judy Garland and have always felt like I was family with Lorna Luft (Judy's daughter).

I was very confused by this and why a 90's teenager was so into the 40's and 50's. I started writing. My dream was to move to New York and become a famous writer. I always knew that sometime in the future I would achieve my dream. I knew this because I felt like writing was a part of me, like an angel was there to guide me or something.Then I had a very odd dream. I remember it perfectly and it makes me smile when I think about it.

I was this woman named Kay Thompson. I remember she was tall and skinny and blonde. I was just walking down New York in the 50's dressed in very elegant attire with diamonds and fur on my shoulders.

I looked up Kay Thompson to see if this person even existed and she does! She was this famous writer who had actually wrote the books "Eloise" (which is now a movie starring the wonderful Julie Andrews). I researched her and she was tall, skinny, blonde and very elegantly dressed. Her birthday was even the same as mine, except the year, of course. It was November the 9th. I had never even heard her name until it came in my dream. She worked with many celebrities and designed costumes as well as she was with her writing. I myself am blonde and felt elegant even though I wasn't walking around with diamonds and furs on. The very strange and extraordinary thing I found out was she had wrote the musical arrangments for Meet Me In St. Louis and that's where she met Judy Garland. They were best friends until the day Judy died in 1969. So much best friends that she even was Liza Minnelli's god-mother and had written Eloise based on Liza living in Hotels. This almost made me cry. It was so strange and so odd. I had always felt like I had a closeness with Judy and her family but I didn't know why. I don't know 100% if I was Kay but I certainly know that research I found scared me. People always told me I must have been some famous, rich, writer in the past and I trully believed that one, but do I believe I was Kay Thompson?

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