Comments on: A Personal History of Blondness http://www.posatigres.com/2010/01/02/a-personal-history-of-blondness/ Creative Nonfiction by Sarah Menkedick Tue, 28 Dec 2010 22:47:31 -0500 hourly 1 By: Simone Gorrindo http://www.posatigres.com/2010/01/02/a-personal-history-of-blondness/comment-page-1/#comment-398 Simone Gorrindo Tue, 12 Jan 2010 20:40:53 +0000 http://www.posatigres.com/?p=648#comment-398 Wonderful post. The cavemen passage was absolutely fascinating, surprising, and yes, ripe with potential for bad blonde jokes. Holding fast to your otherness makes a lot of sense. I think, for as much as we want to belong, living abroad is in part about that -- being a bit alien, separate. We go, maybe more than to see otherness, to feel our own otherness. Wonderful post. The cavemen passage was absolutely fascinating, surprising, and yes, ripe with potential for bad blonde jokes.

Holding fast to your otherness makes a lot of sense. I think, for as much as we want to belong, living abroad is in part about that — being a bit alien, separate. We go, maybe more than to see otherness, to feel our own otherness.

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