Eloise Worledge- a childhood memory

As a child, I had an overactive imagination and an ability to make up all sorts of stories. Growing up in an Australian suburb in the seventies as part of my large immigrant family from England was not exciting enough for me. I made up stories about my life, sometimes just for myself and sometimes I told these stories to others. The earliest tales I remember telling were to the family of a girl I played with, Kathy Hill, that the actress Natalie Wood was my aunt and that Humphrey Bear — an Australian children’s character — was my uncle. I was around 6–7 years old at the time and I remember Kathy’s mother looking at me in a strange way when I told her. It didn’t occur to me that she didn’t believe me because I think I had actually convinced myself it was true, but now I realise that she was on to me. <a href="https://medium.com/@AliciaWood/eloise-worledge-a-childhood-memory-17a9aa8177b9">Learn More</a>