Duckley
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There's always another possibility. Zanny the Nanny might have been an in-joke between KC and say, Lee that was her nickhame for CA. If CA has xanax in her medicine cabinet (and regardless of what I think of her I'd be popping pills living with that group) she might have been the impetus; after all she probably watched Cayleed "90% of the time". Perhaps it had its roots in the little children's book that's been mentioned. KC could have easily read that as a child and then thought a humorous twist would be to call her mother "the nanny" and Zanny the Nanny if her mom had a xanax prescription. I can see KC and LA thinking of all kinds of little secret code nicknames for their parents; I know my sisters and I had ones we used for ours.
That certainly could have been how it started - became a convenient status thing when telling her friends (employed or going to college), and then once she needed an actual name to go with it, she could have used ZG (and if it turns out she herself is ZG22 so much the better). They are all built around the z connection.
I think Zanny is a compilation of many people in KC's mind, including Cindy. Replace the word Zanny with Cindy - and consider her description about the kidnapping story at Blanchard. For example:
Zanny (Cindy) took Caylee - reflects Cindy's threat to take custody
Zanny (Cindy) gave me instructions to follow - Cindy always told KC what to do
Zanny (Cindy) took Caylee to teach me a lesson - no doubt Cindy would have liked to teach KC a lesson.
I think KC blames Cindy for the death of Caylee and it could be that the story she told about Zanny became Cindy under this circumstance.
At other times Zanny is perhaps KC's imagined ideal caregiver - perhaps herself, perhaps Jesse, Amy ... whomever.
She made up the story and embellished it over the years. Zanny represented her ability, as you suggest to continue the "working" facade, enabled her to spend the night elsewhere, go away for the week-end - no questions asked. Zanny gave her freedom.
I remain confused about the name - ZFG. I agree that the name is likley a compilation of names she had heard separately or together but the Sawgrass thing is bugging me. I cant beleive that it was a coincidence, but I have no explanation that the very same name that KC used for the imaginanny was also a name at Sawgrass.