One afternoon close to Christmas, EmmyJean was in charge of making
cookies with all the younger cousins. While they waited for the timer
to go off announcing the dough was chilled, Emmy sat with Boppa.
She had a question.
“Boppa, did you have hair a long time ago?”
“Oh yes,” answered Bops. I used to have beautiful thick brown hair.”
Emmy looked surprised. “Did you ever dye it a diff erent color?”
“I sure did,” he replied.
This one time I went to a Christmas cookie baking party. There
was a girl named Ann at the party who would dye anyone’s hair who
wanted to try it. A girl with long hair already had bright purple stripes,
and someone was getting his blond hair dyed bright red.
Boppa and the Green Hair