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I too struggled. My mother is Irish and my father is Jewish. My dad has the most gorgeous curly black hair and my mother and siblings have very straight fine strawberry blonde hair and blue-green eyes. I have auburn curly hair and my dad dark brown eyes. My mother never knew what to do with my hair so she would put it in a bun or straighten it. I never thought about it until I was 9 years old and my mom's family said I could "pass"... I didnt know what that meant only that my mom was very upset by the comment and didnt talk to them for years.

Flash forward to when I got married and my husband (a Scottish hunk) saw my real hair after being on vacation and not able to get it chemically straightened for months. He loved it! I started to see my hair as more than something I had to "fix". We now have a handsome son with a gorgeous red "jew-fro" he fully embraces and my daughter who inherited the straight fine hair from my mom and husband and I have no idea what to do with it!

I love my jewish hair now! I get a lot of compliments from the straight haired friends and family. Some friends from school see me and ask of I curl it because they had never seen it natural. Crazy to think I was so insecure about it before.

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