Cissy from Family Affair was Smoking Hot! Much →[More:] YouTube.

In my vast epic dream landscape this mornng, The image of Cissy dressed as Roman Royalty emerged on a hung up sheet showing a movie in a camp environment. I turned to my neighbor and said "My God, is that Cissy from Family Affair? She was BEAUTIFUL!"

After I woke up, I though how when I watched Family Affair re-runs, I was Buffy & Jody sized, and didn't register Cissy much. I also though how I know that most of the Family Affair cast went through hard times and came to poor ends, or at least ends. I wondered if she was one of them. I could see her in the seventies, in a New York Apt., doing coke while getting pounded by Brian Keith who would be appearing on Broadway in a Brian Friel play. I hoped she made it that long. (Actually, she's still living and working - Kathy Garver.)

I wonder if there is a name for the doppler effect way that we process visual images differently at different ages. For example looking at my HS yearbook a few years ago, there was a shot of two teachers who later, after her divorce, ended up married. I could see their thirty-ish selves looking at me from this picture and totally tell they were together, something I wasn't able to do at seventeen.

Family Affair thoughts? Other examples of this phenomenon?