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"I wake up in the morning with Conan O&amp;#039;Brien hair. It&amp;#039;s not red, but the front sticks up like a unicorn horn. This has been happening for weeks now. I think it might be attributable to my bangy new &amp;#039;do, but sometimes it takes several passes with the flat iron to make me look less mythological and able to put a hat on. My hair has been a major discussion topic in my family since I was wee and curly topped. It never looked good. When I got a cold\u2013\u2013which was often in those days\u2013\u2013my hair got a cold, too. It went as limp as I did. I got it straightened in high school, and then it fell out. I&amp;#039;m sporting a Donald Trump hair swoop in my sophomore year class picture. Of course, life went on. Sometimes I&amp;#039;d cut it all off myself which is never a good sign. I began ridding myself of ugly greys by turning to an Elvis / Superman blue black, which made me look like sickly witch. I got creative in my later years with long, dangly, tri\u2013colored locks. Which, by the way, upped the family discussions far more than I could handle. The one thing that has always driven Mom crazy is the way I rake my hands through my hair. Think of the comedian Richard Lewis, and there you have me, raking my hair, raking my hair, raking my hair and then being funny. So I guess I&amp;#039;m doing it in my sleep now. I am automatically raking at my hair in dreams. All those dreams about not being able to find my ticket. Raking hair, raking hair, raking hair. Or there&amp;#039;s this, I think as I look in the mirror and see Conan&amp;#039;s hair. In these hair raking times, I need to keep my antenna up.  D.G. Fulford is the author of Designated Daughter: The Bonus Years with Mom, written with her mother Phyllis Greene. She is also the co-founder of TheRememberingSite.org. You can find her at DGFulford.com.  Photo credit: Marcia Smilack "^^<http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#string>
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