Freewrite - Hair

I had such beautiful hair as a child. It was golden and curly, and drew attention wherever I went. The curly hair genes came from my mother's side. My Mum, grandparents, aunts and uncles and cousins in Wales all had blonde tight curly hair, and those still with us have tight blonde curls. But because my Dad's side all had poker straight black hair, the mixed genes caused my hair to be pleasantly curly, golden, soft and flattering.

I loved my hair and the attention it gave me. But when I was approaching twelve years old I realized that all my friends had dead straight hair, and I wanted to be like them. So, for my twelfth birthday, one of my Scottish aunts (with poker straight short hair of course) surprised me with a trip to the hairdresser's as a gift. I will never forget the disappointment on Mum's face when she saw that my beautiful long curly locks were gone. I got what I wanted! For a while at least, I looked like everyone else!
(End of freewrite)

This photograph is one of a set of polyphotos (a sheet of about 40 different photos printed as a contact sheet) that were taken when I was 2 years old. On a train trip to Wales from Scotland not long after the photos were taken, a man on the train was so enamored by my curls, that he asked Mum for a photograph of me. I don't think that parents today would be so trusting of a stranger on a train! I wonder if somewhere out there someone still has that photo and wonders why it is in their family photo album!

I hope you enjoyed this 5 minute freewrite initiated by Hive account@mariannewest. The task is to:

1. Set the timer for 5 minutes
2. Write whatever comes into your head about the day's theme (Today's was “Hair”)
3. Stop when the timer buzzes
4. Use the hashtag #freewrite
5. Make a post
6. Post a link on Hive account@mariannewest's page for the theme of the day. Today's link is here