“While the rest of the species is descended from apes, redheads are descended from cats.”
- Mark Twain

I remember being a little girl with flaming red hair (gold and red and bronze), and women coming up to my mother, cooing over the color. Other children, however, hated my hair. Carrot top, woody woodpecker, head wound, Opie, Medusa, Pippi, Howdy Doody, Ang Mo (chinese for red devil), Rusty, Coppertop, etc. Really cruel stuff, all over a hair color. Got it from my siblings as well, being the only redhead in my immediate family. An uncle and my grandmother were also redheads, living no where near us. The only other redhead in grade school was Alex, a quiet boy with a wry wit, who kept close quarters with his friend Dennis. Alex came from a family of redheads.

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