A Diva By Name, A Darling By Nature

FROM the very beginning, there was something about the girl. Even now, when he talks of her, it sounds a little like love. The details of her birth, in Somerset, England, are committed to memory and roll off the tongue: "She was born on March 21st, 1999 - five minutes past midnight - and she weighed 121 pounds (55 kilograms)."