When I was about 8 or 9, I decided that I wanted curls. I kept telling the women working on my hair that that's what I wanted but they gave me a perm and it made me look like a poodle... The second time I tried for something more tame, I got the same damn poof...and a really burnt up neck. That shit stinks, too.
I didn't like that the poof was always there and that the only way to get rid of it was to work on it. I missed my hair being straight, it was easier to manage.
And you know what? I never did get those curls, they never told me what to do...like an 8 year old knows how to get her hair to behave. 
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"Under the hardness of her facade a woman's heart is still beating."