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Self-Description: I am an easy going guy... laid back, "a gentle spirit"... "tall, red and ... handsome???" I think I have a sense of humor. I am compassionate and passionate. I don't have the "typical" redhead temper... it is the atypical redhead temper. I have a L-O-N-G fuse and things seem to work out before the fuse gets anywhere close to being considered short. I would rather avoid confrontations and arguments but, allowed to continue, the fuse looses a wildman .... who runs amok for 30 seconds or so before I can grab him and stuff him back inside.
I have had my share of redhead taunts growing up ... "Red on the head..." , DON"T say this to me unless you are a really good-looking Red-haired lady. In my early years, I didn't think much about having red hair... in junior high school it was a detriment... by high school realized just how unique WE are... and I have been proud of my hair ever since.
Children: My two oldest (Geoffrey & Molly) are shown on my motorcycle in the third photo. Awww... little red-haired kids... aren't they cute? (they're both in their 30s now!)
More: My RED hair is turning grey fast! But I used to be not-quite-auburn. I love redheads... two of my three children have red hair ... their Mother and her sister and my brother are redheads, too. My brother & I were adopted at birth. From what I understand, our biological-father was Welsh and our birth-mother was Native American... yet it was our Mother who had the red hair. My brother inherited her skin tone and tans nicely. I got my father's Celtic coloration and I burn. Growing up in Southern California I loved being outside, especially the beach... when older, I worked outside. I managed to repave the skin on my face on a weekly basis ... I jokingly call it Perma-burn.
Strangely enough, for a sun-sensitive person such as myself, one of my favorite things to do is surfing. It is something I have done for almost 45 years now. When you see the sign, "KEEP OUT OF DIRECT SUNLIGHT".. well that wasn't me. I still do it but away from the SoCal coast now-a-days... The Oregon waters have me in a full-length wetsuit with only my head exposed.
I know some would like to know my astrological sign... to tell the truth, I don't believe in any of that stuff... after all us Cancerians are VERY skeptical. But everytime I use the word... the word ... for my astrological sign I get antsy. "Cancer" (....EEK!!!) Being in the sun so much I developed a melanoma on my left ear back in 1997... and had 3/4 of an inch removed. I have gone on a personal crusade... WEAR YOUR SUNSCREEN. I don't want to see anybody getting parts cut off.
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