...and her hair turned white, overnight
If you have read much trashy 19th Century literature, you will no doubt have run across an example of someone who suffers a terrible shock, and whose hair turns white overnight from the experience. Obviously, this is not possible since the hair on our heads is all dead, but the myth prevails. Annie Oakley is said to have gone white overnight. (Another version of this story has her hair turning white after too much time in a mineral bath at a European spa.) Likewise, Sir Thomas More and Marie Antoinette were reputed to have gone white the night before their executions.A few years back, I had parts of my head shaved for some minor surgery, so I know exactly the rate at which my hair grows.
Literary conventions aside, I have an astonishing crop of white hairs that exactly coincide with the date of Robb's accident. Stress? You betcha!
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I always thought it looked sort of cool to have streaks of different colored hair, the only thing now left to do is to invent a much more interesting story to explain the hair color change. Tell people you've had a really bad alien abduction, for example. Or you've dyed it for an upcoming episode of "California Theater Survival". Or you dyed it to match your cat. You get the idea. - Annalisa
isn't it amazing the trivia one's mind retains.
your grey-headed friend, Leslie M.