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stunned.
                Salina ’s mom answered while her husband, two sons, Salina and her sister all passed plates of food around the table, “It’s a weekend thing Jenny.  Saturday and Sunday we have our big family meals.  We’re all so busy during the week, what with work and school, we seem to pass each other more than not.”
                Jenny nodded, she knew Salina ’s mom and dad both worked.  Her dad had a swing shift job at Anchor Glass.  He drove a forklift that was dangerous what with loading crates of glass bottles high, high in the air in tall stacks.  It was easy to die with a pile of glass shards falling down on top of the man working the forklift and anyone close by if the load tilted or shifted wrongly.  There were rumors of it happening, way back when.  But, it paid decent and Salina ’s dad had worked there for over twenty-five years.
                Salina ’s mom was a server at Red Lobster Restaurant.  The oldest brother, Tyrone, who only Jenny called Ty, was twenty-two and currently laid off at the railroad where he’d worked since graduation.  A younger brother was still in Middle School.  The older sister was in her mid-twenties, divorced and back at home.
                As Jenny sat and began to eat some eggs and grits they all expressed shock at her new hair style.
                “Hey girl!  What did ya do to that pretty hair you had?” Salina ’s eldest brother asked, blunt and tackless as ever.
                Acting like she was trying to pout Jenny asked as she fiddled with a curl near her ear, “Ohhh, Ty, you don’t like it?  I thought you guys loved perky, pixie type females?”
                Tyrone gave her a half-embarrassed smile.  “Depends on the woman.  It’s cute enough, on you, anyway.  Just loved the long hair, that’s all.  What made you cut it off, it doesn’t grow that long over night?”
                Not wanting to reveal her mindset she simply replied, “I needed a change.  It being my senior year, I wanted a new look.”
                Salina ’s mom said she adored her new hair.
                Jenny whispered to Salina ’s mom, “It’s a wig, I just wanted something different.” 
                That seemed to surprise her even more, then she nodded, “Oh, girl, I know that feeling.  Glad you didn’t do the deed though, you would have regretted it in another month, I know.  I did that once when I was a young woman.”
                “What happened?” Jenny asked as she and Salina leaned closer and listened with interested eyes.  The others where in another conversation about basketball and upcoming parties.  The elder sis was on her cell talking with a new guy while purposely ignoring everyone.
                Salina ’s mom smiled.  “I broke up with this fella who I thought was a pure heart throb.  Found out he’d been seeing four other women while engaged to me.  Even had two children I didn’t know about.  Needless to say I was terribly furious, hurt, devastated and embarrassed.  My hairstyle back then was these long weaves and cost a fortune.  I went to the lady who did mine and told her to unweave and start cutting.  I had a short Afro in mind but she said that was too old style and gave me a relaxed sleek, short hairstyle instead.”  She looked at the girls seeing their pity and understanding.  “A month later I cried for hours over the two foot long hair I used to have.”
                Salina snorted, “Men!  They tend to drive us women crazy.”
                Jennifer’s cell started vibrating again, it was her mom.  “Hi mom.”  After a while of listening to her mom reminding her that Thomas was supposed to be there about noon Jenny said, “I know Mom.  Didn’t dad tell you I said I’d be back before he arrived?”  Her dad was out weed eating the lawn