my hairrry story

1982, September, I remember the very day when the photo
was taken, we had to wear our white aprons to school, & it
was so important to me to show I can be relied on, so I was
stressing out whether it is ironed, & if it was clean enough
having only worn it once before on the 1st day of school,
& the feeling of being bit miffed that all the other girls had
hair long enough to wear a bow, & refusing to wear the one
that Mom attached to a bobby pin... in attempt to punish her
for the hair disaster a week before. I remember that well, too
She left me at her friend's house asking her friend's sister
(who happened to be a hair-dresser) to cut my hair a bit,
she claimed later to having meant just the ends to make it
straight at the bottom, but what she actually said was "so
that I didn't have to take her to the sallon for a long time"...
I cried all the time since the lady cut off my long (past the
shoulder blade) curls, I cried quietly, mourning the loss of
my hair, and till Mum came home from grocer's or wherever
she was gone to. And She was Angry with me for letting my
hair be cut off... I really could not understand why... A. What
could I have done once my long pony tail fell down to the
floor, and B. Didn't she say herself: "So that I didn't need to
take her to the hair-dresser for a long time..."
So you can probably imagine how hard the start of the
school was for me. My first nick-name was Typhoid, & kids
laughed at me a lot. The photo day was luckily not the very
start of the school year, and the hair looked almost normal
but I was very upset nevertheless, especially after school
when I would change out of the uniform and don my pair
of jeans and a shirt, (I had a dress but it was only for
birthday parties, and that is another story)... Remind me...
I was taken for a boy for a long time, until one day the same
year they found head-lice, and Sanitary authorities (San.
Epidem. station) sent a person with the hair cutter machine
Yes, one for all... and they sent all of us home with short hair
cuts and a piece of paper, explaining the reason. There was
this one girl Yulia (the one who coined my nickname) who
was absent from school, and was the only girly looking girl
after that, but funny enough nobody found the short hair
so funny after that...
I pick you by Laurie Ann {complete kit}
I pick you by Laurie Ann {alphabet}