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Originally Posted by Curious
hmmm...maybe "ugly duckling" and "black sheep"? meant the same thing?
but ya know..way back, if a woman didn't have a beau and marriage prospects in her early teens..she was thought of as an old maid. 
my mother's aunt..who was like my grandmother, since mine passed away when i was an infant....was a beautiful woman. but she wanted a career. that just wasn't the way in the 20's. she never did get married.
beauty comes from inside. it radiates no matter what the "shell" is. |
Interesting thought.
I don't think so in this case, though...
My father was roundly described as the black sheep, so much so that his father, my grandfather, more or less left him out of the will... so my father stole what was left to me.
I remember visiting my Great Aunt in the 60s, I arrived later on the night Bobby Kennedy was shot.
In those days I wore the short dresses, and my aunt followed me around with lace and different things she thought I should sew onto the bottoms of my dresses... I really liked her. In fact I bought a fig recently, a baby fig tree, and it reminds me of her and her fig trees. She lived on the lagoon in Oceanside.
I doubt very much that she was 'wayward' --
but if you saw a picture of my grandmother and her together... I think you'd sort of see that my grandmother had a sense of being attractive.
I think my great aunt thought about other things more often...
If that makes any sense..
