Nomenclature

My name is Annabelle Lee Kentucky. They called me Belle when I was a baby. When I was three, I pointed to the strawberry jelly and said: 'Belly'. So then they called me Belly. I was a precocious child and learned to read before I went to school. When I was 12, I read Sylvia Plath's 'The Bell Jar'. From then on, until the day I died, I was known as Belle Jar. When people were feeling particularly affectionate towards me, they called me Jar.

I became totally obsessed with Sylvia Plath. When I grew up (ha! little did I know then that there was to be no growing up...), I wanted to go to London, where it was always overcast and gray, and they had free healthcare, called NHS. If I saw 'NHS' on a car's license plate, I knew I was going to have a good day.