Zoe, or Caren for short

while out walking today, the girls wanted to play 'friend'. "momma," kendyl said. "let's pretend that catherine is your daughter and i am catherine's friend, emily. and you are taking us to the jewlery store."
this is where catherine informs me that her name is going to be caren.
sure. why not.
so as we walk the girls talk up these ellaborate stories. at one point catherine said "ugh, little brothers are such a pain." me, trying to stay in character, say "caren, how old is your little brother?"
"33."
kendyl laughs. "catherine, your only six. how can your little brother be 33?"
"i am not six." she states. "i'm...80." of course she is.
later while the "friend" game turned into friend/horseland/my moms from mars (that last part was the direction i was trying to take it in, but the girls said no), names were changing all over place. my name was muriel (thank you catherine).
kendyl was emily, or sarah. at one point kendyl was yelling to catherine, stumbling through all of the names she had chosen for herself, catherine looks at her and smiles. "kendyl, my name is really zoe, but my nickname is caren." i can see where she would get that.
that brings me back to a girl i used to know. taylor swift taylor swift thomas.