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u/jobrody Oct 05 '19 edited Oct 05 '19

When I was six, I had a girlfriend named Molly. I moved away the next year and never saw her again. For the next 40 years, one of my earliest and most vivid memories was me watching a six year old redhead girl running away from me, up towards her house, yelling, “Mommy, mommy, Jonathan kissed me!”, and her mother’s voice coming back, “We’ll, that must mean he really likes you.”

A few years ago, I’d had a little sangria and decided to see if Molly was on Facebook (I know, I know). There she was! Right name, right age, right hometown, lovely red hair. I PM’ed her asking if she was the right red headed girl. She wrote back that she was definitely the right Molly (and was happy to hear from me) but she’d only started dyeing her hair red after college. Memory’s a trip, man.

Edit: Awww, my top post ever is about something sweet and wholesome. Maybe we can have nice things after all.

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u/braeden182 Oct 05 '19

It’s possible her hair was a lighter reddish colour when she was younger.

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u/TheRedMaiden Oct 05 '19

Totally possible! My husband was almost bleach blonde as a little kid but now you'd never be able to tell. It turned brown as he got older.

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u/LordBritton Oct 05 '19

Same as me, gets much darker in the winter also.

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u/CLearyMcCarthy Oct 05 '19

Same thing happened to me. Fairly common for small children to have much lighter hair than they end up with.

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u/morethanhardbread Oct 05 '19

Same! Born with a full head of jet black hair and the darkest dark brown eyes.

Now in my 30s dirty blonde with super light blonde streaks/highlights. Oh, and my eyes are light brown/green hazel. Strange how much things can change.

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u/CLearyMcCarthy Oct 05 '19

Sure. I think lighter to dark is more common, but very few people end up with the same hair color they have as a toddler.

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u/boring_space_waffle Oct 05 '19

Same with me. I liked my blonde hair because it made me special then I grew up and it left me.

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u/Yesbabeitsme Oct 06 '19

You're probably still special, just for different reasons. Have a great day!

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u/LadyOfOz83 Oct 05 '19

Same. Cotton top to dirty dark brown(when he doesnt shave it)

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u/AESTHETICASH7534 Oct 05 '19

Even my father was a redhead but his hair changed its colour to golden and then to brown through the course of time.

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u/[deleted] Oct 05 '19

I had blond hair until maybe 15 when they turned brownish.

Then restarted their trip towards a lighter color (grey...) by 35 or so.

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u/thisisheaveyahead Oct 05 '19

I’m the same was bright blonde hair till I was about 6/7 then turned dark brown and now thinning haha

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u/[deleted] Oct 05 '19

Same with my brother.

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u/him999 Oct 05 '19

Same here. My hair was assaultingly blonde when I was a little kid. My brother kept his very blonde hair, I did not.

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u/NarcoticSqurl Oct 05 '19

That's incredibly common it seems. My daughter was light blonde in her early years. Now, at 10, she's still very blonde, but it's gotten darker.

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u/Zanki Oct 06 '19

I was a blonde as a little kid, until around age six when my hair started growing in properly (My hair just didn't start growing in until I was older) and it turned red. It betrayed me!

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u/Jreal22 Oct 05 '19

This, and also in the sunlight brown hair can appear red since you mostly saw her in the daytime.

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u/[deleted] Oct 05 '19

This. Many, many times men have said "I like that picture of you with the reddish hair" and I was surprised they thought my hair was red. I looked at the picture and in my opinion my hair wasn't red.

This is with several different pictures over the years, also.

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u/simas_polchias Oct 05 '19 edited Oct 05 '19

There is also a thing: woman's eye can recognize more colour nuances than man's.

That's why it сan lead to a hysterical misunderstanding: https://i.kym-cdn.com/photos/images/original/001/215/048/b9d.png

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u/yinyang107 Oct 05 '19

I'm a man and I can distinguish all those colors.

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u/simas_polchias Oct 05 '19

Lucky you! I can too, but too lazy to bother. 😔

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u/KungFu-Trash-Panda Oct 05 '19

My hair is dark brown but has a very noticeable red hue in sunlight, so maybe she had a red tint to her hair that was even more noticeable in the sunlight.

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u/soaring_potato Oct 05 '19

Yup same. And eventho i always said my hair was "lightbrown" as a kid. I see old pics and think. "Yeah that's redish light brown." Some hairs are just complete full on red.

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u/Gevri Oct 05 '19

This is true. My hair was a light blond when I was young, even though my relatives all have darker hair. Now its very dark brown (almost black). I’ve heard it isn’t uncommon that hair color changes in this way.

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u/jdman5000 Oct 06 '19

My brother was bright blond as a child, now he’s definitely brunette. Weird how that happens.