How to Be a Man
When she was 12 and staying with us for several weeks that summer, she asked me if she could get a haircut. She wanted a big change - "Cut it all off!" she said. I asked her to pick some photos, "so we can show the stylist what you're looking for". The pictures were not just of short hair styles - but radical - more like boy cuts than short women cuts. I was a little shocked - and asked her to double check the cut with her mom and to maybe back off on the extremity a bit. I was not paying attention. I was a step-mom with very little time in the job - and was so worried about not screwing up - that I wasn't paying attention.