Youssouf, her brother, said: "As she grew up, she lacked points of reference and in the end chose this carefree attitude, running away more and more often, hanging out with dubious people".
Even while delivering the saddest of torch songs, like Rodgers and Hart's "He Was Too Good to Me," her sound conjured early-morning sunlight on a glistening lawn, a mountain brook percolating in the distance and carefree children running through the woods.
But Ann said that's certainly not the case for Bella, who now lives a carefree life running, playing, eating and spending time with her best friends, two Nigerian dwarf goats.
They are back laughing and bellowing at resolute parents, happily crawling and running, as carefree as before.
The running, gunning, carefree Suns, the N.B.A.'s darlings one year ago, seem to have lost everything that made them so enjoyable -- and so dangerous -- last season.
From her carefree gait to her running splits, some of which she seemed to execute unnecessarily when the point was already over, she just seemed to be having fun out there.
For the childhood she could have and should have had -- full of play dates and lessons and running around carefree.
8 P.M. (ABC) WIFE SWAP A carefree mom who runs a traveling carnival switches lives with an upper-class wife who puts more emphasis on rules and structure.
It is not a matter of trying to run carefree again -- as if it were Sept. 10 -- but to stop feeling so completely paralyzed -- as if it were Sept. 11.
I ran carefree across that same grass.
