When I was a student, I worked in a care home. Somewhere in a drawer I have a half-written short story about an old lady in a similar institution who remembers, through the fog of Alzheimer's, two things: the heyday of Hollywood, and that she once "almost died". Only on the last page does she tell her carer she once also had another name " 'they called me Marilyn, Marilyn Monroe'. Bite me, it's no nuttier than the …
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 09:43AM on February 25, 2016