Today Ethan Grove asked me why I had so many ow eees all over my face. I love it when kids realize I have freckles it makes me happy. I had to explain that they did not hurt, that they are just freckles.
Most kids want to know how I got them. I usually call them angel kisses and say the angels all loved me so much that they came in the middle of the night and gave me kisses when I was a small child. I once had a little girl ask me how she could get the angels to come kiss her. I then felt bad because I realized she would never get freckles because she was too dark. So I covered up by saying sometimes you do not notice when they kiss you. Then I pointed at a mole on her face and told her that was an angel kiss. She felt better about herself. After that point I stopped emphasizing how much love the angels had for me.
My Grandpa told me this little farce when I was little to make me feel better about my fair complexion and it worked. In the words of Jake Lee "some people are doomed to be white!" Thanks Jake it is so true and I would rather be white than tan any day. Maybe?
2 comments:
Angel kisses? How about you tell them that little monsters beat you up when you were little, so that they don't want them? Not that they're bad, but... you know.
WHAT?! I don't know I feel about that. I love my freckles and always will even if that means I am a ginger. I am proud of my white heritage. Racism against really white people is just mean.
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