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It can't be easy being Paris Hilton sometimes. Especially when you're not even Paris Hilton but people think you are.
UCLA student Shira Barlow unintentionally found out what a day (or months) in the life of the heiress was like when, after breaking her cell phone, the San Francisco native's wireless provider gave her a recycled 310-area code number that once belonged to Hilton.
As the Los Angeles Times discovered when a reporter dialed the digits in search of Hilton, Barlow has been receiving, since February, dozens of calls and text messages intended for the celebutante.
Only after Hilton was sentenced to jail in May did Barlow become convinced that she wasn't being punked, but that she had really been saddled with Hilton's old number.
Already bummed that she didn't receive a 415 Bay Area prefix, "I didn't make the connection" at first," Barlow told the Times.
But once enough calls and texts flooded in asking where the party was and then offering support in light of her upcoming jail sentence, Barlow realized that her friends hadn't been calling her "Paris" and other random nicknames for no reason.
Most of the short conversations she had with people trying to reach Hilton were polite, Barlow said, although there was one woman who asked, "Why are you doing this? This is so rude," and another who called back five times to lecture Barlow after the coed asked whether the caller was from Florida.
Barlow said that Hilton received tons of supportive messages after she was sentenced to 23 days in jail for probation violation but that, once the Simple Life star was actually behind bars, the communiqués trailed off.
Now that Hilton is out and about, though, Barlow's phone has once again been ringing regularly.
"It's disgusting how they treated you in there, but once again you have showed the world that you can do anything," read one message sent by someone who obviously was quite moved by what Hilton had to say on Larry King Live a day after being released.
The inconvenience of having Hilton's number hasn't fazed Barlow enough to get new contact info, however, with the college student figuring that slurred 4 a.m. wakeup calls are easier to deal with than getting back on the phone with the wireless company and handing out yet another new number to her friends.
"It was really out of convenience," she told the Times. "I didn't want to switch again."
The real Hilton, meanwhile, has been busy posting MySpace messages since returning from a five-day Maui vacation on Tuesday. She followed up her Independence Day advisory reminding people to get a designated driver if need be with a quick shout-out to herself.
"Hope you all had a great holiday!" she wrote Friday. "Very exciting news…I have been nominated for the Teen Choice Awards '07 in the Female Reality/Variety category! The show is airing live Sunday, August 26th, 8pm/7pm CST."
She then gives the link that fans can use to vote for her online and signs off, "All my love, xoxo Paris."
Hilton made an appearance July 4 at a small yet star-studded party at a Malibu beach house, the same shindig a sober Lindsay Lohan attended, per E! Online's Planet Gossip.
Also moved by Hilton's recent experiences, apparently, was L.A. Times columnist Joel Stein, who came up with the idea for a song based on Hilton's post-incarceration statements to King and commissioned comedian Scott Brown to write and perform the tune. Fellow comic Jason Averett edited the accompanying video.
The fruits of their labor, "A Process A Gift and A Journey," is posted on funnyordie.com.
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