There Was a Little Girl: The Real Story of My Mother and Me (56 page)
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Authors: Brooke Shields
Winter in Southampton.
Acknowledgments
I wish to say thank you to my literary agent, Stephen Barr, for his layered insight and basically just for the way his brain works; to my focused and incredibly organized and attentive editor, Jill Schwartzman, for filing every tiny random memory I sent to her at all hours of the night; to her assistant, Stephanie, who didn’t let a little thing like pregnancy derail her when it came to getting my changes transcribed and in on a deadline; to my godmother, Lila, for her years of support and for helping me reconstruct history; to my great friend Lyda for being attached to the past in the same way I am and for helping me remember all the details; to my friend and archivist Mike for knowing more about my life than I do and for caring and for tirelessly keeping track of every bit of the past forty-nine years; to my babysitters Kelly and Lauren for keeping my kids busy and alive while I slogged away at writing this book and for listening to me read out loud and for typing faster than I will ever be able to. To my assistant Dan, for caring for me and for becoming a part of our family. To Lisa, for remaining my “sassy.” To my husband, Chris, just because he asked me to marry him; and to my smart and stunning daughters, who inspire me to be a better person and who take my breath away because I love them so deeply. And finally to my mom, for loving
me.
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Table of Contents
Chapter One: Teri Terrific
Chapter Two: Shields and Co.
Chapter Three: She Could Make It Rain
Chapter Four: If You Die, I Die
Chapter Five: Pretty Baby
Chapter Six: Fuck ’Em If They Can’t Handle It
Chapter Seven: Are You Finished?
Chapter Eight: Blue
Chapter Nine: The Brooke Doll
Chapter Ten: Remember the Hula-Hoop
Chapter Eleven: America’s Sweetheart
Chapter Twelve: I Wish I Only Knew You in the Mornings, Mama
Chapter Thirteen: We Met by Fax
Chapter Fourteen: MIA
Chapter Fifteen: Toots
Chapter Sixteen: I Know Your Kind
Chapter Seventeen: Tag Sale
Chapter Eighteen: They Die Feetfirst
Chapter Nineteen: Cremation/Look, Ma, No Pants!
Chapter Twenty: Returning Home