A Real Redhead
My Aunt Gladys was a real redhead, although she was totally grey when I knew her.
Her likeness drawn by her husband and my uncle, sits and looks down at me, as I type this.
Cousins Reunited
My mother is on the left and Gladys is on the right.
Her likeness drawn by her husband and my uncle, sits and looks down at me, as I type this. She was good to me and C and even paid for our marriage licence, on condition I passed on the value to someone else. Which of course, I did! (I must write that story up some time!) I just did and it’s here.
Incidentally, that red gene is still in my family, as years ago, my beard had a touch of the reds and my son, says his does too. But that is minor really!
Yesterday, on the Underground, I saw a girl of about ten or so with her mother. She had the most amazing red hair. It wasn’t short and curly like most red hair seems to be, but long and straight and just clipped into a pony tail. Obviously, because of her age, the colour was totally natural.
They say that people’s fortune is in their face, this girl could have it in her hair.
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