Hemlock B Bootsalotta

I remember my sister's dance recitals and my own school assemblies (which were the closest equivalent since... ugh... public performance not for me) and there was such a hubbub around them I find it difficult to imagine no one told you or talked about it around you.

I'm not rejecting your account out of hand, just saying that it seems improbable, but not impossible. Stranger things have happened in childhood.