Fall of 1970 I believe. 5th grade. I slept in curlers. The night before picture day. Why would anybody think that sleeping (actually, not sleeping) in curlers would make you look fresh and rested on picture day? I was 10. I did not have much control over it. I had straight, stringy, fine hair. It tangled easily. The curlers left weird mis-shaped dents in the front part of my hair. I hated not having bangs. I had them through fourth grade and had bangs again in 8th grade. Fifth through seventh - no bangs. I hated every school picture from that time.
Speaking of curlers, my nephew was an extra in the movie Super 8. When I watched the movie I laughed at the part where a Mom was talking to a police officer about her missing daughter. She told him her daughter had curlers in her hair. She asked the policeman "Do you know what curlers are?" He said "Yes! I know what curlers are!" The movie was written to take place in 1979 in Weirton WV. I laughed. I loved that little piece of dialogue.
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