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As a child Zelda Sayre was extremely active.
She danced, took ballet lessons and enjoyed the outdoors.
In 1914 Sayre began attending Sidney Lanier High School.
She was bright but uninterested in her lessons.
Her work in ballet continued into high school, where she had an active social life.
She drank, smoked and spent time alone with boys.
A newspaper article about one of her dance performances quoted her as saying that she cared only about " boys and swimming ".
She developed an appetite for attention, actively seeking to flout convention — whether by dancing the Charleston, or by wearing a tight, flesh-colored bathing suit to fuel rumors that she swam nude.
Her father's reputation was a safety net, preventing her social ruin.
Southern women of the time were expected to be delicate, docile and accommodating.
Sayre's antics were shocking to those around her, and she became — along with her childhood friend and future Hollywood starlet Tallulah Bankhead — a mainstay of Montgomery gossip.
Her ethos was encapsulated beneath her high-school graduation photo:
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