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PR lady Lara Shriftman was so cute as a youngster, before she got all fake-tan and plastic surgery-looking on us. An enterprising former classmate of LAI-ra's ("she would always correct people and say it's LAIRA, not LAURA," our tipster reports) sent along a photo of her in elementary school, as well as a point-by-point rebuttal of parts of the seminal 1998 article on Lara and her cohorts, Vanessa Grigoriadis' NY Mag piece "Welcome to the Dollhouse." Both pieces of Shriftmanobilia after the jump.

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"A buxom debutante [Jews, esp. in Jacksonville, are NOT debs. No way.] with thick blonde hair that she has straightened three times a week, Shriftman grew up "just, like, totally normal" in Jacksonville, Florida, the daughter of a natural-food-company CEO [Her dad was a nine-to-fiver in advertising]; she kept a horse at the country club [none of our country clubs had stables and I certainly do not remember a horse ever being mentioned in all the times I spent at their house], served as secretary of her pre-debutante society [again, no such thing, I can only assume she is referring to the sorority-type club we all belonged to at Wolfson High School, an, ahem, public school] , and usually ended up the designated driver in her Mercedes 190E [she drove a red Acura Integra for as long as I knew her; it was then handed down to her younger sister].

As always, if you've got dirt on someone Before They Were Sorta Famous, please send along to the usual spot.

Welcome to the Dollhouse [NYM]
Earlier: Lara Shriftman, Social Networker Extraordinaire
Earlier: Before They Were Sorta Famous: Stacey Bendet