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Tiny Tuesday
| Tue, 02-26-2002 - 8:46am |
Tiny Tuesday
Hi everybody. Since we had so much fun with the alphabet exercise of planting three words into our piece a few weeks ago, let's continue that with the letters D, E, and F. Try to place these into your Tiny Tuesday in any order you wish: dandelion, Emmeline, and funky. Remember, have fun, and happy writing! Sammi

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I want more!(nt)
Thank you, everyone ...
Heather - Thanks for reading - bikini wax - me neither also!
Mac - Thanks for your comments. I think I'll get that book out of the library. (I just figured he wore the bikini with the boy-cut bottoms!) I hadn't thought of expanding or submitting this one but with your encouragement I just might!
Sammi - Thank you, it sure does. It must feel awful to feel like one gender but have your body be another. Real powerful psychological forces in action.
Maria - Thanks, and I'm really curious about the struggles these people face and what's going on inside.
Happy Wednesday, Eyewrite
TT
High humidity can be a heartbreaker.
Especially for girls with curly hair.
Terry knew this from first hand experience. Every time the chirpy local weatherman predicted a rise in humidity Terry knew that her problems would begin all over again. Sometimes the change was hardly noticeable. Other times even her own mother would have been hard pressed to recognize her from behind.
It was during these times that Terry’s curly hair would frizz out, leaving her with a hair-do reminiscent of a half-blown dandelion.
When she was younger Terry was able to hide the worst of the damage under baseball caps. As she grew older – and as she found out that boys were useful for things other schoolyard games – she had to find alternative means of dealing with her hair. And thus began Terry’s vain search for something, anything, that could help her during the Bad Hair Days of Summer when high humidity was her constant tormentor.
Terry tried desperately to control her hair. Hairsprays, mousses, gels, conditioners, creme rinses, hot oils, and other hair treatments promising manageability and shine had been tried and found wanting. It didn’t matter whether they were extra-hold, super-hold, mega-hold, or ultra-hold. Nothing Terry found could tame her humidity-stricken hair.
It was a battle she fought year after year. And she always lost.
It didn’t matter whether her hair was short or long. When her hair was long only the hair covering the top of her head and near her temples frizzed out, leaving her with a modified version of hockey hair. When her hair was short all of it frizzed out, leaving her hair looking like a brown tuft of wild cotton. Either way she ended up with a funky hair-do that could frighten children and the elderly, as well as cause dogs to howl when she passed by.
One year she tried chemically straightening her hair. All that managed to do was make her hair brittle and cause it to break unevenly so that, when it inevitably did frizz, it frizzed at different angles due to the different hair lengths.
Terry was resigning herself to yet another battle-fraught summer of humidity when she saw a commercial for a new hair care product. It looked like any other miracle cure out on the market, but the manufacturer was touting a new never-before-used space age ingredient called Emmeline that was absolutely guaranteed to control frizzies after just one use.
Terry decided that she had nothing to lose. So that afternoon, scarf tied self-consciously around her hair, she popped into her local pharmacy for the new product containing Emmeline.
That night she tried the product on her hair. And, for the first time in a long time, Terry’s irascible frizzies were calmed and relaxed. In fact, Terry was able to sleep through the night without getting tangled up in her own hair. And, as an added bonus, there was no oily build-up.
From that day on Terry and her hair were the best of friends.
Mac, I love mysteries, can you, um, keep writing installments of this one? nt
I loved your opening line & the image of her as a dandelion head. Great job! nt
Thanks, eyewrite (m)
I actually had Frank Sinatra playing Edward X. Delaney in mind when I wrote this. I started another TT and then I thought of continuing the piece from Sunday so this is what came out.
Glad you liked it!
Mac
Thanks so much, Jade!!!! (nt)
Thanks, Maria (m)
I'm happy you like it and will post more soon!
Mac
Will do...thanks, Heather!!! (nt)
One of your best, Jade...good job! kat
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