In a message dated 4/23/02 3:34:06 AM Mountain Daylight Time, zippywebgenie@hotmail.com writes: > My grandmother was left handed, the only one in her family. And she was a > first generation American, German parents. And in their culture, > left-handedness was considered to an evil thing. So, they would stand > behind > her and force her to use her left hand. She cried and cried, she said, but > for the rest of her life, until she was in her 70's she wrote with her > right > hand. Then, she became a bit palsied and went back to her left hand, > because > it was less shakey. (In Grandma's family of 10 kids, there was only one > with brown eyes, and they told her she was adopted. lol It didn't pay to be > > different in that family!) > Jan G., I'm the same. I'm the third of nine. Only lefty, only redhead. Six of us have brown eyes, eight if you include my parents. Of the nine, as children, we were 4 brownettes, 4 blondes and 1 redhead. Dad and Mom are brownette. Only one of the blonde's has brown eyes. The rest are blue or hazel. You really never know what will surface in physical characteristics in a child. Aleta, IBSSG, Charter Member Bo-Peep Award Ogden, Utah, USA "God sent his Singers upon the Earth, With songs of Gladness and Mirth. That they might touch the hearts of men, And bring them to Heaven again." --Longfellow