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MOTHER'S NEW DAUGHTER

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MOTHER'S

NEW DAUGHTER

By Sandy Thomas

Special thanks to Pamela Marie & Kristy Love

In life, it's hard to figure out what to do. "Do what you do best," one teacher said. Another said, "Hard work and elbow grease makes for a happy life." "Be yourself!" was on the wall of my philosophy classroom.

"Be yourself?" What does that mean. Like, during the first seventeen years of life, my mother became a blonde four times. Is that being yourself? Funny how each time she was a blonde our life changed in a big way. She was blonde when my father died. Blonde again when the mourning was over and again for a couple of months when I started high school...

Mother was very restrictive with me in my teenage years and nagged me about my long hair. My dead father had been a barber and even though he was killed by a pair of shorted out clippers, mother wanted my hair short. I refused to get it cut and she often joked about tying me up and letting her hair stylist crew cut me.

Since her beauty shop was close to school, it was our regular meeting place on Thursday evenings. I sat waiting for her one evening looking over one of the few magazines that a guy would read. I watched the three girls in the shop create various hairstyles, but my mother was in the back of the shop in the owner's booth.

I listened to the women and laughed. It was like the world revolved around their hairstyle and color.

There weren't many young girls in this shop. That was good. I would hate to be seen there.

It was a half an hour later than usual and still no sign of mother. I looked around and admired a gorgeous platinum blonde sitting in the back. Her hair was white, very bouffant and her stylist, Pat, was showing her how to "make it work."