When I looked up at the cashier, I was taken aback: He had pink hair. A huge shock of neon pink hair… I thought to myself:
“Wow, wouldn’t it be nice to be a Swiss? Maybe even to sport some pink hair?”
Barack Obama once had black hair. But his is gray now, not pink. That’s also the tax you pay for thinking about the Middle East too much: It leads to either gray hair or no hair, but not pink hair.
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What year is it in Thomas Friedman’s world?
This picture was in my high school locker.
Fanci-Full was cheap and plentiful in the dusty drugstore down the street.
PS: I did NOT grow up in NYC — or even Switzerland!
