Kimberly Hayes will never grow up, and nor would we ever want her to. It is Kimberly's ability to be innocently fun-loving and childlike that makes her so endearing. Kimberly Hayes is extremely clever and sophisticated. There is, after all, a very big difference between being childlike and being childish. Kimberly is open minded, unselfish and able somehow to approach each new day with a spirit of real, fresh inspiration. That explains why Kimberly enjoys life so much and it also explains why other people, looking at Kimberly's life from a distance, cannot understand why she enjoys it so much. Those of us who know and love Kimberly Hayes find her enigmatic, mysterious or even downright baffling. We can't help liking her, but nor can we quite manage to work out where she is at, where she is coming from, what she is up to or what she is in to. Kimberly's tastes and preferences are what some people would call eclectic, others would term unusual and most folk would classify as 'just plain weird.' Kimberly, though, is consistent in her inconsistency. There is method to her madness. Kimberly is interested in - even fascinated by - so many strange, different topics and subjects because Kimberly is such a natural experimenter.

Kimberly doesn't need to travel the world in search of variety. Kimberly can wake up one morning feeling quite sure that she is one particular kind of person. By the afternoon she will be someone else. Her personality will not change, her loyalty will not waver but her mood will evolve allowing her to explore, enthusiastically, ways of behaviour which only a few hours ago seemed unattractive. Thus Kimberly Hayes creates a world in which there is constant variety and excitement. Boring people, who like to follow life's laws to the letter and stick rigidly to one fixed plan find Kimberly Hayes hard to handle or even to relate to. People with a sense of adventure, a sense of imagination and, most importantly of all a sense of humour, cannot get enough of Kimberly's company.

Source, from Lissy (locked) and Aimee

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