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- From: aaron@atlantis.uucp
- Subject: Aural
- Message-ID: <1993Jan20.033841.4108@atlantis.uucp>
- Organization: Atlantis Communications, Edmonton, AB, Canada
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- Date: Wed, 20 Jan 1993 03:38:41 GMT
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- It took me years to find out it was just a figure of speech.
-
- My hair never grew, once it reached a certain length. But my ears just kept
- creeping up the side of my head.
-
- My mother would take me to these special shops, and they'd push them back down
- again. She told me that this was "getting my ears lowered", though some people
- referred to it as "getting a haircut". She said that despite the ads, only a
- few people could do it properly. She taught me how to recognize the shops, and
- warned me >never< to go into any of the others.
-
- At school I saw people with different lengths of hair, but I just assumed they
- were all born that way. Even the girls with really long hair. They got their
- ears lowered, just like I did--or so I thought.
-
- Gradually I began to notice the differences. For instance, with most people,
- their whole face seemed to be rising as well as their ears over time. And my
- grandpa--my dad's dad--was completely bald, and his ears never seemed to move.
- I used to think he must just get his ears lowered a little bit each day.
-
- But when I got to college, and discovered the variety of hairstyles, the hair
- of different lengths, and the reality of the "other" kind of barber shops, I
- knew I was different. Not from everybody--there were a few of my kind around,
- always. We stuck together out of necessity, because nobody else would
- understand.
-
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