"Saçu boyanmīsh!"

"Saçu boyanmīsh!" . . . a statement which, to this day, Marash Girl can hear Grandma Yester announcing in those very words, a statement Grandma Yester made whenever she spied a woman in her forties or fifties with shiny brown or shiny black hair. She was so proud of her abilities to detect such fakery. Grandma Yester herself had brown hair with only a few strands of grey until she was well into her 80's. . . as did her daughter, Marash Girl's mummy Jennie! And Marash Girl? Not sayin'!